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Quantitative Approaches for Studying Cellular Structures and Organelle Morphology in Caenorhabditis elegans
Published on: July 5, 2019
AutoMorphoTrack: A modular framework for quantitative analysis of organelle morphology, motility, and interactions at
Armin Bayati1,2, Jackson G Schumacher1,2, Xiqun Chen1,2
1Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02129, USA.
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Quantitative imaging of organelle dynamics provides crucial insights into cellular function, state, and organization; however, existing analysis workflows often require advanced coding expertise and multiple software tools. AutoMorphoTrack is an open-source Python toolkit that automates organelle detection, morphology classification, motility tracking, and colocalization from multichannel fluorescence microscopy image stacks. The platform includes adaptive segmentation, organelle trajectory reconstruction, and pixel-level overlap quantification within a unified, reproducible framework that can be executed as an interactive Jupyter notebook, a modular Python package, or through AI-assisted natural-language commands. Each analysis step outputs publication-ready images, time-lapse videos, and standardized quantitative data tables. To complement the main pipeline, an accompanying script-AMTComparison.py-is provided to demonstrate how AutoMorphoTrack's outputs can be extended for comparative analysis across individual neurons or experimental conditions. Together, these tools provide an accessible and framework for high-content, reproducible quantification of subcellular morphology, motility, and interactions at single-cell resolution.
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