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Modifications to the imagej computer assisted sperm analysis plugin greatly improve efficiency and fundamentally alter the scope of attainable data
Author(s) -
Purchase C. F.,
Earle P. T.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of applied ichthyology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.392
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1439-0426
pISSN - 0175-8659
DOI - 10.1111/jai.12070
Subject(s) - plug in , biology , scope (computer science) , software , sperm , process (computing) , quality (philosophy) , open source , sperm quality , computer science , computational biology , operating system , programming language , genetics , philosophy , epistemology
Summary Computer assisted sperm analysis ( CASA ) has greatly enhanced the quality and quantity of data that can be collected on spermatozoa movements. Open source imagej software allows any researcher to have access to such analyses, but CASA systems in general are not designed to ably process large numbers of video sequences. Here we introduce a modified imagej CASA _automated plugin that fundamentally enhances efficiency and will allow higher quality research to be conducted with no extra post‐microscope effort.