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VisuStatR: visualizing motility and morphology statistics on images in R

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MOTIVATION Live-cell microscopy has become an essential tool for analyzing dynamic processes in various biological applications. Thereby, high-throughput and automated tracking analyses allow the simultaneous evaluation of large numbers of… Click to show full abstract

MOTIVATION Live-cell microscopy has become an essential tool for analyzing dynamic processes in various biological applications. Thereby, high-throughput and automated tracking analyses allow the simultaneous evaluation of large numbers of objects. However, to critically assess the influence of individual objects on calculated summary statistics, and to detect heterogeneous dynamics or possible artifacts, such as misclassified or -tracked objects, a direct mapping of gained statistical information onto the actual image data would be necessary. RESULTS We present VisuStatR as a platform independent software package that allows the direct visualization of time-resolved summary statistics of morphological characteristics or motility dynamics onto raw images. The software contains several display modes to compare user-defined summary statistics and the underlying image data in various levels of detail. AVAILABILITY VisuStatR is a free and open-source R-package, containing a user-friendly graphical-user interface and is available via GitHub at https://github.com/grrchrr/VisuStatR/ under the MIT+ license. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION Examples and additional information are available online and on the project's webpage.

Keywords: visualizing motility; motility morphology; motility; visustatr visualizing; morphology statistics; summary statistics

Journal Title: Bioinformatics
Year Published: 2022

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