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Beth Cimini Defining the input to CellProfiler can be the hardest part of getting your pipeline set up and your analysis underway. Incoming images are configured in the first 4 modules of CellProfiler – Images, Metadata, NamesAndTypes, and Groups – which offer lots of flexibility. But it’s sometimes...

Beth Cimini There’s nothing more exciting than getting back a big batch of data from your automated microscope – finally, you have the results of your screen, your timelapse, or whatever you’ve spent the last weeks or months preparing. That excitement can turn to sadness quickly though when you...

Anne Carpenter So you already know how to put together an image analysis pipeline to measure particular phenotypes of interest? Great! Have you ever considered looking for the unexpected? Say you are comparing two treatment conditions, such as a negative control vs. a hormone treatment. You may have...

David R. Stirling We’ve all done this before – CellProfiler Analyst needs a database file, but your CellProfiler pipeline that took days to run was set up to export spreadsheets. To make matters worse, you also need a .properties file explaining what to do with that database. Fortunately, you don’t...

David R. Stirling We have now released CellProfiler Analyst version 3.0! Download it here. As with CellProfiler 4, the primary goal of this release has been to migrate from Python 2 to Python 3 and modernise the application. We’ve also focused on improving performance and usability. Along with...

Beth Cimini Hi all, We hope you’re enjoying our new CellProfiler 4.1 release! If you haven’t had a chance to see it yet, please do grab a copy from https://cellprofiler.org/releases. There are a few new features or changes of note we’re particularly excited to share with you all: For the first time...

David R. Stirling Hi all, We’ve now released CellProfiler 4.2! You can download it from https://cellprofiler.org/releases. We have a few new features and improvements in this release. There have been numerous smaller bug fixes, but the key changes are as follows: We’ve fixed an issue which was...

Pearl V. Ryder In the previous blog post in this series, I demonstrated how I masked out debris that was brighter than the fibers of interest. In this post, I’ll walk through how I enhanced the fibers in order to increase their brightness and decreased the background intensity of the images. If you...

Barbara Diaz-Rohrer If you are working with single-channel images, you can just drag a few images into CellProfiler and start making your pipeline. Most of us, however, have images with multiple channels or more complex image metadata that you need to tell CellProfiler how to identify.The tutorial...