Time-Dependent Image Restoration of Low-SNR Live-Cell Ca<sup>2</sup> Fluorescence Microscopy Data

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Autores principales: Lena-Marie Woelk, Sukanya A. Kannabiran , Valerie J. Brock , Christine E. Gee , Christian Lohr , Andreas H. Guse , Björn-Philipp Diercks , René Werner
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Publicado: MDPI AG 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/d866c1d7c1a5432ab339cbd65077aec0
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Sumario:Live-cell Ca<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msup><mrow></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn><mo>+</mo></mrow></msup></semantics></math></inline-formula> fluorescence microscopy is a cornerstone of cellular signaling analysis and imaging. The demand for high spatial and temporal imaging resolution is, however, intrinsically linked to a low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the acquired spatio-temporal image data, which impedes on the subsequent image analysis. Advanced deconvolution and image restoration algorithms can partly mitigate the corresponding problems but are usually defined only for <i>static</i> images. Frame-by-frame application to spatio-temporal image data neglects inter-frame contextual relationships and temporal consistency of the imaged biological processes. Here, we propose a variational approach to <i>time-dependent</i> image restoration built on entropy-based regularization specifically suited to process low- and lowest-SNR fluorescence microscopy data. The advantage of the presented approach is demonstrated by means of four datasets: synthetic data for in-depth evaluation of the algorithm behavior; two datasets acquired for analysis of initial Ca<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msup><mrow></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn><mo>+</mo></mrow></msup></semantics></math></inline-formula> microdomains in T-cells; finally, to illustrate the transferability of the methodical concept to different applications, one dataset depicting spontaneous Ca<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msup><mrow></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn><mo>+</mo></mrow></msup></semantics></math></inline-formula> signaling in jGCaMP7b-expressing astrocytes. To foster re-use and reproducibility, the source code is made publicly available.