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A Quantitative Path to Pathology

Guest Author This post was written by a guest author, Kun-Hsing Yu, who can be reached at Kun-Hsing_Yu@hms.harvard.edu. Lung cancer causes more than 1.4 million deaths per year. To diagnose lung cancer, pathologists prepare microscopic slides from surgical or biopsy samples, stain them with...

Quantifying microscopy images: top 10 tips for image acquisition

Anne Carpenter Not every image you capture on your microscope is suited for quantification, no matter how nice they may look. Even though you might not notice any problems by eye, the tips outlined here for acquiring and storing images can improve the quality of data derived from digital image...