Image Processing and Drosophila Embryos

Logan Bishop-Van Horn, Teodor Nicola-Antoniu

Using raw data from microscope images in modeling gene expression levels presents the researcher with many challenges; one must be able to remove any extraneous information from the image and be able to compare images prepared and taken from different embryos on different days. For this reason, Logan and Teodor’s projects focused on creating a pipeline for processing these images, including noise and background subtraction, normalization, spatial registration, and extraction of quantitative levels of gene expression.