Andrew Cohen, Ph.D. was featured on Phys.org in an article titled “Image-tracking technology allows scientists to observe nature vs. nurture in neural stem cells” published this past September. Phys.org is a leading web-based science, research and technology news service. Phys.org publishes approximately 100 quality articles every day, offering some of the most comprehensive coverage of sci-tech developments world-wide.
The article covers the collaborative research effort between the Neural Stem Cell Institute and Cohen’s Computational Image Sequence Analysis Lab. The lab developed biological tracking programs, called LEVER and CloneView, that automates the process of analyzing time-lapse images that track growth, movement, and proliferation of cells. Lineage Editing and Validation (LEVER) processes the raw images and attempts to locate and tag the cells in each frame based on knowledge about size and shape. CloneView visually augments the time-lapse videos with outlines of the cells as they move, grow and divide, while also recording each division on a lineage tree.
Read the article at Phys.org or view the video highlighting Professor Cohen's work below.