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- Title
Cellular analysis by open-source software for affordable cytometry.
- Authors
Mittag, Anja; Pinto, Fernanda E.; Endringer, Denise C.; Tarnok, Attila; Lenz, Dominik
- Abstract
Image cytometry is an important technique in affordable healthcare and cellular research. Some efforts toward establishing a personal, low-cost cytometer have been described in the literature. However, a self-assembled fluorescence microscope requires software for cytometric analysis. There are some open-source image-based software analysis applications available. However, for a quantitative analysis of images, software that can generate data comparable to those of previously evaluated cytometric analyses programs is required. Hence, the aim of this study is to compare results of a commercially available image cytometry program to data obtained using the open-source software CellProfiler (CP). Leukocytes and fluorescent bead images obtained using a Laser Scanning Cytometer were analyzed by CP and the results compared with those of conventional cytometric analyses' programs. Algorithms were developed enabling the analysis of leukocytes and beads by CP. CP provided similar results to those obtained by the cytometer software. Hallmark parameters, including cell count and fluorescence intensity, revealed a high correlation in the analysis of both programs. Therefore, CP is appropriate for cellular analysis on a self-assembled microscope, thereby enabling affordable cytometry. SCANNING 33: 33-40, 2011. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
- Publication
Scanning, 2011, Vol 33, Issue 1, p33
- ISSN
0161-0457
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/sca.20220