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Co-localization analysis in fluorescence microscopy via maximum entropy copula

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  • Farsani Zahra Amini

    (Statistics Department, School of Science, Lorestan University, 68151-44316 Khorramabad, Islamic Republic of Iran)

  • Schmid Volker J.

    (Bioimaging Group, Department of Statistics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Ludwigstraße 33, 80539 Munich, Germany)

Abstract

Co-localization analysis is a popular method for quantitative analysis in fluorescence microscopy imaging. The localization of marked proteins in the cell nucleus allows a deep insight into biological processes in the nucleus. Several metrics have been developed for measuring the co-localization of two markers, however, they depend on subjective thresholding of background and the assumption of linearity. We propose a robust method to estimate the bivariate distribution function of two color channels. From this, we can quantify their co- or anti-colocalization. The proposed method is a combination of the Maximum Entropy Method (MEM) and a Gaussian Copula, which we call the Maximum Entropy Copula (MEC). This new method can measure the spatial and nonlinear correlation of signals to determine the marker colocalization in fluorescence microscopy images. The proposed method is compared with MEM for bivariate probability distributions. The new colocalization metric is validated on simulated and real data. The results show that MEC can determine co- and anti-colocalization even in high background settings. MEC can, therefore, be used as a robust tool for colocalization analysis.

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  • Farsani Zahra Amini & Schmid Volker J., 2021. "Co-localization analysis in fluorescence microscopy via maximum entropy copula," The International Journal of Biostatistics, De Gruyter, vol. 17(1), pages 165-175, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:bpj:ijbist:v:17:y:2021:i:1:p:165-175:n:5
    DOI: 10.1515/ijb-2019-0019
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