• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: INSIDIA: A FIJI Macro Delivering High‐Throughput and High‐Content Spheroid Invasion Analysis
  • Contributor: Moriconi, Chiara; Palmieri, Valentina; Di Santo, Riccardo; Tornillo, Giusy; Papi, Massimiliano; Pilkington, Geoff; De Spirito, Marco; Gumbleton, Mark
  • imprint: Wiley, 2017
  • Published in: Biotechnology Journal
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1002/biot.201700140
  • ISSN: 1860-6768; 1860-7314
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  • Description: <jats:sec><jats:label /><jats:p>Time‐series image capture of in vitro 3D spheroidal cancer models embedded within an extracellular matrix affords examination of spheroid growth and cancer cell invasion. However, a customizable, comprehensive and open source solution for the quantitative analysis of such spheroid images is lacking. Here, the authors describe INSIDIA (INvasion SpheroID ImageJ Analysis), an open‐source macro implemented as a customizable software algorithm running on the FIJI platform, that enables high‐throughput high‐content quantitative analysis of spheroid images (both bright‐field gray and fluorescent images) with the output of a range of parameters defining the spheroid “tumor” core and its invasive characteristics.</jats:p></jats:sec>