Extracting biomedically important information from large, automated imaging experiments

Major challenges remain in the extraction of rich information from high-throughput microscopy experiments. In this paper, I describe some of these challenges, particularly those that are the subject of ongoing research in my laboratory. The challenges include segmenting neurons, co-cultures of different cell types, and whole organisms; segmenting and tracking cells in time-lapse images; quantifying complex phenotypic changes; and discovering biologically relevant subpopulations of cells.