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Anne Carpenter

As the PI of the Carpenter lab (a.k.a. Broad Institute Imaging Platform, including the CellProfiler team), people often ask how I manage so many ongoing collaborations: we discuss...

Kyle Karhohs

Annotated image data is valuable for assessing the performance of an image processing pipeline and as training data for machine learning methods such as deep learning. When...

Beth Cimini

Everyone here at the CellProfiler team is very excited about our new 3.0 release, and we certainly hope you are too!  CellProfiler 3.0 is much faster than any of our previous releases...

Beth Cimini

For those of you who’ve been with us for a long time though, the obvious next question after how to use the new test mode is will my old CellProfiler pipelines work in the new...

Anne Carpenter

We are thrilled to announce that CellProfiler 3.0 is now released!  Download it here.

Eighteen months in the making, this is the first version of CellProfiler that can identify...

Juan Caicedo

As described in our lab’s recent review article, there are so many great reasons to use microscopy images to create signatures of perturbations: identifying phenotypes associated with...

Kyle Karhohs

# Sharing Image Data

At the Imaging Platform we frequently need to send and receive images between collaborators or forum users. Working with images can become challenging...

Guest Author

This post was written by a guest author, Kun-Hsing Yu, who can be reached at Kun-Hsing_Yu@hms.harvard.edu. 

Lung cancer causes more than 1.4 million deaths per year. To diagnose lung...

Anne Carpenter

Not every image you capture on your microscope is suited for quantification, no matter how nice they may look. Even though you might not notice any problems by eye, the tips outlined...

Kyle Karhohs

Now that CellProfiler can handle 3D images, how do you view the results? When processing 2D images, the IdentifyPrimaryObjects module will produce a figure that displays the original...