Digital image processing of life/death staining KU Leuven
The quantification of live and dead cells in a substrate is often an essential step in cell biology research. A staining protocol that acts differently on live and on dead cells is applied and the number of cells visible is counted using a microscope. Often this counting is done manually or only evaluated qualitatively. If the number of samples to be analyzed is large, counting live and dead cells will become a labor intensive, and in some cases ...