Automated Quantitative Analysis of Shape Features in Human Epithelial Monolayers and Spheroids Generated from Colorectal Cancer Cells

Hannah m. Brown; M. angeles Juanes

doi:10.1007/978-1-0716-3076-1_20

Automated Quantitative Analysis of Shape Features in Human Epithelial Monolayers and Spheroids Generated from Colorectal Cancer Cells

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Advancements in microscopy techniques permit us to acquire endless datasets of images. A major bottleneck in cell imaging is how to analyze petabytes of data in an effective, reliable, objective, and effortless way. Quantitative imaging is becoming crucial to disentangle the complexity of many biological and pathological processes. For instance, cell shape is a summary readout of a myriad of cellular processes. Changes in cell shape use to reflect changes in growth, migration mode (including speed and persistence), differentiation stage, apoptosis, or gene expression, serving to predict health or disease. However, in certain contexts, e.g., tissues or tumors, cells are tightly packed together, and measurement of individual cellular shapes can be challenging and laborious. Bioinformatics solutions like automated computational image methods provide a blind and efficient analysis of large image datasets. Here we describe a detailed and friendly step-by-step protocol to extract various cellular shape parameters quickly and accurately from colorectal cancer cells forming either monolayers or spheroids. We envision those similar settings could be extended to other cell lines, colorectal and beyond, either label/unlabeled or in 2D/3D environments.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Intestinal Differentiated Cells. Methods in Molecular Biology
Editors	P Ordóñez-Morán
Publisher	Humana Press
Pages	261-271
Number of pages	11
Volume	2650
ISBN (Electronic)	9781071630761
ISBN (Print)	9781071630754
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-3076-1_20
Publication status	Published - 14 Jun 2023

Publication series

Name	Methods in Molecular Biology
Volume	2650
ISSN (Print)	1064-3745
ISSN (Electronic)	1940-6029

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Tiff images of HCT116 cell monolayers and 3D spheroids were kindly provided by Lautaro Baro and Dr. Asifa Islam, respectively, both members of our lab. Images have been deposited in Zenodo repository (doi: 10.52181/zenodo.7679086). This work was sup-ported by grants from the Academy of Medical Science/the Well-come Trust/the Government Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy/the British Heart Foundation/Diabetes AMS Springboard Award UK [SBF006\1070], and the CIDEGENT Excellent Research Program from the Valencian regional govern-ment CIDEGENT/2021/026 to M.A.J

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Brown, H. M., & Juanes, M. A. (2023). Automated Quantitative Analysis of Shape Features in Human Epithelial Monolayers and Spheroids Generated from Colorectal Cancer Cells. In P. Ordóñez-Morán (Ed.), Intestinal Differentiated Cells. Methods in Molecular Biology (Vol. 2650, pp. 261-271). Article Chapter 20 (Methods in Molecular Biology; Vol. 2650). Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-3076-1_20

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