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CardIAP: calcium transients confocal image analysis tool.

Ana Julia Velez Rueda¹, Luis Alberto Gonano², Agustín García Smith¹

¹Departamento de Ciencia y Tecnología, CONICET, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Bernal, Argentina.

Frontiers in Bioinformatics

|July 31, 2023

Summary

CardIAP is an open-source Python tool for analyzing cardiomyocyte and intact heart images. It quantifies calcium dynamics, aiding research into cardiovascular diseases and optimizing animal resource usage.

Keywords:

alternans calcium transient confocal microscopy discordance analysis impaired calcium handling

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Area of Science:

Cardiovascular Research
Cellular Biology
Biomedical Imaging Analysis

Background:

Calcium (Ca2+) handling is crucial in cardiovascular research, as alterations impact cell functionality.
Fluorometric techniques enable quantitative measurement of dynamic Ca2+ events in living cells.
Analyzing confocal microscopy images of cardiomyocytes and intact hearts requires specialized tools for spatial and temporal data.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce CardIAP, an open-source Python application for systematic, accurate, and rapid analysis of cardiomyocyte and intact heart images.
To provide a tool for researchers to analyze spatial and temporal changes in calcium dynamics.
To facilitate the study of anomalous calcium release phenomena in cardiovascular research.

Main Methods:

Development of CardIAP as an open-source Python tool, available as an interactive web application and a standalone library installable via PIP.
Utilizes fluorometric techniques and Ca2+-sensitive fluorescent probes for quantitative analysis of confocal microscopy images.
Enables analysis of complete images or portions thereof, with replication across image series.

Main Results:

CardIAP provides systematic, accurate, and rapid analysis of spatial and temporal calcium dynamics in cardiomyocytes and intact hearts.
The tool allows for characterization of calcium releases and extraction of dynamics data into downloadable tables.
Facilitates calculation and classification of alternation and discordance indices.

Conclusions:

CardIAP offers a valuable, open-source solution for analyzing complex cardiovascular image data.
The application streamlines the extraction of critical information on calcium handling, aiding research into disease mechanisms.
By optimizing image analysis, CardIAP can improve resource and animal usage in biomedical research.