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A hierarchy of graph-based methods to study the behavior of immune cells in vivo

Pizzagalli, Diego Ulisse ; Krause, Rolf (Dir.) ; Gonzalez, Santiago Fernandez (Codir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2020 ; 2020INFO018.

The immune system has a critical role in diseases of primary importance such as infections and cancer. Hence, it represents a target for novel therapeutic strategies. However, the immune system relies on a complex network of cell-to-cell interactions which remains largely unknown, or difficult to be interpreted. The combination of experimental data with computational methods is of paramount...

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Leukocyte tracking database, a collection of immune cell tracks from intravital 2-photon microscopy videos

Pizzagalli, Diego Ulisse ; Farsakoglu, Yagmur ; Palomino-Segura, Miguel ; Palladino, Elisa ; Sintes, Jordi ; Marangoni, Francesco ; Mempel, Thorsten R. ; Koh, Wan Hon ; Murooka, Thomas T. ; Thelen, Flavian ; Stein, Jens V. ; Pozzi, Giuseppe ; Marcus Thelen ; Krause, Rolf ; Gonzalez, Santiago Fernandez

In: Scientific data, 2018, vol. 5, p. 180129

Recent advances in intravital video microscopy have allowed the visualization of leukocyte behavior in vivo, revealing unprecedented spatiotemporal dynamics of immune cell interaction. However, state-of-the-art software and methods for automatically measuring cell migration exhibit limitations in tracking the position of leukocytes over time. Challenges arise both from the complex migration...