An Interactive Visual Analysis Tool for Cellular Behavior Studies Using Large Collections of Microscopy Videos

This paper presents an interactive visual analysis tool created for studying collections of video data. Our driving application is cellular behavior studies that use microscopy imaging methods. The studies routinely generate large amounts of videos with various experimental conditions. It is very time-consuming for the scientists to watch each video and manually extract features-of-interest for further comparative and quantitative studies. We show that with our visualization tool, scientists are now able to conveniently observe, select and isolate, and compare and analyze the cellular behaviors from different perspectives within one framework. The tremendous time and effort saved allow scientist to focus on deriving the actual meaning behind certain observed behaviors.