{"669303":{"#nid":"669303","#data":{"type":"news","title":"New Software Means Biomedical Researchers Don\u2019t Have to Be Computer Scientists Too","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe last few decades have brought advances in biomedical imaging that allow researchers to capture still and moving images at an unprecedented level of detail. Analyzing those images, however, often remains a manual, error-prone process that fails to maximize their value for understanding biological systems.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EA team at Georgia Tech and Emory University has created a simple-to-use software program to help. It allows any researcher with imaging data to leverage powerful artificial intelligence algorithms and uncover new insights from their experiments \u2014 without knowing how to write complex computer code.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ECalled \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iclots.org\/\u0022\u003EiCLOTS\u003C\/a\u003E, the program is open-source and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iclots.org\/\u0022\u003Efreely available on a dedicated website\u003C\/a\u003E with extensive documentation and guidance. The team described the software and how it can help deepen understanding of experimental data \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-023-40522-4\u0022\u003Ein the journal \u003Cem\u003ENature Communications\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/news\/2023\/08\/new-software-means-biomedical-researchers-dont-have-be-computer-scientists-too\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ERead more about how iCLOTS is unlocking the power of AI for biomedical researchers on the College of Engineering website.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech, Emory team creates open-source tool that lets researchers use artificial intelligence to analyze moving and still images collected by any imaging device.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech, Emory team creates open-source tool that lets researchers use artificial intelligence to analyze moving and still images collected by any imaging device."}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2023-08-31 14:28:15","changed_gmt":"2023-09-05 17:14:08","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-08-31T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-08-31T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"671555":{"id":"671555","type":"image","title":"iCLOTS Microscopy and Microfluidics Software","body":"\u003Cp\u003EBiomedical engineering Ph.D. student Kirby Fibben uses the iCLOTS software to analyze experimental data collected using a microfluidic chip. The software, developed in Wilbur Lam\u0027s lab, allows any biomedical researcher to leverage the power of artificial intelligence for images and video without knowing how to write computer code and scripts. (Photo: Candler Hobbs)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","created":"1693492108","gmt_created":"2023-08-31 14:28:28","changed":"1693492108","gmt_changed":"2023-08-31 14:28:28","alt":"Ph.D. student Kirby Fibben uses the iCLOTS software to analyze an image of a microfluidics chip. (Photo: Candler Hobbs)","file":{"fid":"254639","name":"iCLOTS-Microfluidics-Analysis-Kirby-Fibben-4224-t.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/08\/31\/iCLOTS-Microfluidics-Analysis-Kirby-Fibben-4224-t.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/08\/31\/iCLOTS-Microfluidics-Analysis-Kirby-Fibben-4224-t.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1499184,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2023\/08\/31\/iCLOTS-Microfluidics-Analysis-Kirby-Fibben-4224-t.jpg?itok=r3bknjHY"}}},"media_ids":["671555"],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"594","name":"college of engineering"},{"id":"249","name":"Biomedical Engineering"},{"id":"14681","name":"Wilbur Lam"},{"id":"187915","name":"go-researchnews"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jstewart@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJoshua Stewart\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCollege of Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jstewart@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}