Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, Volume. 16, Issue 6, 2350006(2023)

DecodeSTORM: A user-friendly ImageJ plug-in for quantitative data analysis in single-molecule localization microscopy

Qihang Song1... Cheng Wu1, Jianming Huang1, Zhiwei Zhou3, Zhen-Li Huang1 and Zhengxia Wang2,* |Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1Key Laboratory of Biomedical Engineering of Hainan Province, School of Biomedical Engineering, Hainan University, Haikou 570228, P. R. China
  • 2School of Computer Science and Technology, Hainan University, Haikou 570228, P. R. China
  • 3Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, P. R. China
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    Quantitative data analysis in single-molecule localization microscopy (SMLM) is crucial for studying cellular functions at the biomolecular level. In the past decade, several quantitative methods were developed for analyzing SMLM data; however, imaging artifacts in SMLM experiments reduce the accuracy of these methods, and these methods were seldom designed as user-friendly tools. Researchers are now trying to overcome these difficulties by developing easy-to-use SMLM data analysis software for certain image analysis tasks. But, this kind of software did not pay sufficient attention to the impact of imaging artifacts on the analysis accuracy, and usually contained only one type of analysis task. Therefore, users are still facing difficulties when they want to have the combined use of different types of analysis methods according to the characteristics of their data and their own needs. In this paper, we report an ImageJ plug-in called DecodeSTORM, which not only has a simple GUI for human–computer interaction, but also combines artifact correction with several quantitative analysis methods. DecodeSTORM includes format conversion, channel registration, artifact correction (drift correction and localization filtering), quantitative analysis (segmentation and clustering, spatial distribution statistics and colocalization) and visualization. Importantly, these data analysis methods can be combined freely, thus improving the accuracy of quantitative analysis and allowing users to have an optimal combination of methods. We believe DecodeSTORM is a user-friendly and powerful ImageJ plug-in, which provides an easy and accurate data analysis tool for adventurous biologists who are looking for new imaging tools for studying important questions in cell biology.

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    Qihang Song, Cheng Wu, Jianming Huang, Zhiwei Zhou, Zhen-Li Huang, Zhengxia Wang. DecodeSTORM: A user-friendly ImageJ plug-in for quantitative data analysis in single-molecule localization microscopy[J]. Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, 2023, 16(6): 2350006

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    Paper Information

    Category: Research Articles

    Received: Dec. 30, 2022

    Accepted: Jan. 30, 2023

    Published Online: Dec. 23, 2023

    The Author Email: Wang Zhengxia (zxiawang@hainanu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1142/S1793545823500062

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