MetaVi Labs Blog
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Understanding ibidi Chemotaxis Metrics
Introduction Chemotaxis—the directed migration of cells in response to chemical gradients—is fundamental to immune responses, wound healing, cancer metastasis, and embryonic development. Quantifying chemotaxis requires more than just measuring how far cells move; we need to understand whether they’re moving toward the chemoattractant and how efficiently they navigate. The ibidi Chemotaxis Tool has become a…
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A Free Tool for Understanding (and Reproducing) ibidi Chemotaxis Plots
download: https://metavilabs.com/sites/default/files/share/ibidi_plot_python.zip Chemotaxis experiments are conceptually simple — but the coordinate systems are not. If you’ve ever tried to: reproduce ibidi’s chemotaxis plots outside their software, validate migration direction numerically, or explain to a colleague why “down in the image” becomes “up in the plot”, you’ve probably discovered that coordinate systems are…
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FDA no longer requires animal testing for new drugs
FDA no longer has to require animal testing for new drugs (science.org) MetaVi Labs’ Powerful AI driven in vitro assays Provide More Data than Animal studies This decision of the FDA has increased the value of all methods, materials and devices that are suitable to perform preclinical drug testing in the lab. Especially those cellular…
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Results of the Cell Tracking Challange
While we were not aware of the Cell Tracking Challenge in 2019 (http://celltrackingchallenge.net/), we thought it would be fun to process some of their data sets to see how we do. Of course this is un-official. We will be updating this post with results as we have time. Starting with the 2D data set…
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Software for Cell Segmentation, Chemotaxis, and Cell Migration
Two options will be discussed: Option 1: MetaVi Labs AI Backed, 100% Automated Cell Tracking Option 2: For your convenience, we provide a list of Open Source and Free Software Tools for Cell Segmentation and Cell Migration Option 1: MetaVi Labs AI Backed, 100% Automated Cell Tracking Cell segmentation for chemotaxis or cell migration studies…
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Periodic Membrane Potential and Ca2+ Oscillations in T Cells Forming an Immune Synapse
Important paper on the Ca2+ oscillations in the T cell Immune Synapse. Papp et al. discuss their findings on the oscillations in calcium flux during synapse formation. We find this interesting because we measure this precisely using our AI backed analysis system. https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/21/5/1568 Learn more about our AI Powered Synapse analysis and…
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Over 25,000 uploads to FastTrack AI !
As of today (10 January 2023) we are at 25,596 uploads to our system dedicated to our sales through ibidi. Our secondary service has had 13,660 uploads. This is from over 1,400 labs around the world. This provides us with millions of cell images to feed into our machine learning system and provides biologists with…
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Why Segment Cells? Example 1: Accurate Cell Death Measurements
Is cell segmentation really necessary ? A google scholar search on the term “cell segmentation deep learning” produces over 17,000 results. So this is obviously a problem which thousands of people have devoted much effort to solving. CellPose, for example, has provided a very nice Deep Learning system which makes it ‘easy’ for…
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Using FastTrack AI for a clinical indication in liver cirrhosis
Great new paper from Matthias Gunzer’s lab with another example using FastTrack AI for a clinical indication. Link to paper in Liver International We are using AI/Deep Learning in a new way: we apply it to microscopy images of living cells. Looking at living cells is a lost art. But with the advent…
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MetaVi Labs Introduces AI backed Cell Counting for $2 per image set
To support all those who labor to do science in academia: for half what you pay for a Starbucks’ coffee, you can now save hours of tedious manual work with our AI backed cell counting software. Our AI system is pre-trained on thousands of samples and if it does not work for you, let us…