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Re: Cell counting

Posted by Andrei Stefan on Mar 31, 2015; 7:57pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Cell-counting-tp5012266p5012277.html

Somehow I didn't added the link... But here it is:

1. *Correct the background illumination* (*see this LINK
<http://imagejdocu.tudor.lu/doku.php?id=howto:working:how_to_correct_background_illumination_in_brightfield_microscopy>*
).

2015-03-31 19:29 GMT+01:00 Andrei Catalin Stefan <
[hidden email]>:

> Dear all,
>
> I am not an expert with ImageJ, but I would like to contribute to the
> topic.
> Before counting the cells, what I would do is:
>
> 1. *Correct the background illumination* (see this LINK, there are ways
> so you need to see what is available and suits you).
> 2. Use *Colour Deconvolution* (*see this LINK
> <http://www.mecourse.com/landinig/software/cdeconv/cdeconv.html>*) or *Trainable
> Weka Segmentation* (*see this LINK
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yfBHiGufFE>*) to isolate the cells that
> interest you. There are also other means, but see what it works for you.
> 3. Use ImageJ's built-in tool to count/analyse the cells.
>
> An other advice is to make sure the staining protocols, image acquisition
> and image analysis is consistent so there is no room for major errors.
>
> Hope it helps,
>
>
>
> Best regards,
> Andrei Stefan
>
> 2015-03-31 18:48 GMT+01:00 veraelisabeth <[hidden email]>:
>
>> Hi Jenny,
>>
>> I'm relatively new to imagej and I see some problems with it, regarding
>> the
>> subjectivity of it. But I'd try to separate the color channels (although I
>> don't know if thats possible with your sort of image (I use
>> immunofluorescence of cell cultures and it's possible)
>>
>> Then I would download the color pixel counter. Afterwards you could
>> calculate all coloured pixels / mean pixels of one cell to get the number
>> of
>> cells
>>
>> But as I said. I'm quite new to imagej
>>
>>
>>
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>
>
>
> --
>
> Andrei Cătălin ȘTEFAN, MRCVS, DVM, MVSc
>
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>
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