Additional resources
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Overview
Questions
- Where can I find further information?
Objectives
- Find additional resources for image analysis / microscopy online
Additional resources
If you want to learn more about image processing and microscopy, we’ve linked some useful resources below:
Bioimage analysis
image.sc forum
A general forum for image analysis advice, covering many popular pieces of software e.g. ImageJ, Napari, QuPath and many more.Pete Bankhead’s bioimage book
A free, online book providing in-depth discussion of biological image analysis. A great resource for delving deeper into the principles discussed during this course.Data Carpentry: Image Processing with Python course
An online course covering image analysis with python. This is particularly useful if you want to start writing your own scripts to use with Napari.Bioimaging guide
An online guide covering principles for design of quantitative microscopy experiments, as well as how to analyse the resulting image data.Robert Haase’s lectures on bioimage analysis
Recordings of Robert Haase’s 2020 lectures on bioimage analysis. Useful for learning general image processing principles, in various pieces of software e.g. ImageJ, python, QuPath…
Napari
Napari documentation
Napari’s main documentation website, including installation instructions and tutorials.Napari tutorial from ScaDS.AI
Online tutorial showing use of Napari from jupyter notebooks, with various plugins.
Microscopy
Nikon’s Microscopy U
Website with articles on microscopy principles, covering many different types of microscope.Tutorial: guidance for quantitative confocal microscopy
Useful paper giving an overview of how to design and setup a quantitative light microscopy experiment.Royal Microscopical Society technical tea break talks
Recorded short talks from the Royal Microscopical Society on various microscopy principles.
Talks/seminars about image processing
UCL Bioimage interest group
Monthly talks (in person and online) about image analysis of biological images. Open to all.Eurobioimaging virtual pub
Weekly online talks on various topics related to microscopy and image analysis. Open to all.
Python
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Software
carpentry python course
Online course providing an introduction to the python programming language.
Statistics
Nature’s ‘Points of significance’ series
A series of articles covering basic principles of statistics.Modern statistics for modern biology book
A free online book covering statistics for biology in depth.