The study of moving particles (e.g. molecules, virus, vesicles, organelles, or whole cells) is crucial to decipher a plethora of cellular mechanisms within physiological and pathological conditions. Powerful live-imaging approaches enable life scientists to capture particle movements at different scale from cells to single molecules, that are collected in a series of frames. However, although these events can be captured, an accurate quantitative analysis of live-imaging experiments still remains a challenge. Two main approaches are currently used to study particle kinematics: kymographs, which are graphical representation of spatial motion over time, and single particle tracking (SPT) followed by linear linking. Both kymograph and SPT apply a space-time approximation in quantifying particle kinematics, considering the velocity constant either over several frames or between consecutive frames, respectively. Thus, both approaches intrinsically limit the analysis of complex motions with rapid changes in velocity. Therefore, we design, implement and validate a novel reconstruction algorithm aiming at supporting tracking particle trafficking analysis with mathematical foundations. Our method is based on polynomial reconstruction of 4D (3D+time) particle trajectories, enabling to assess particle instantaneous velocity and acceleration, at any time, over the entire trajectory. Here, the new algorithm is compared to state-of-the-art SPT followed by linear linking, demonstrating an increased accuracy in quantifying particle kinematics. Our approach is directly derived from the governing equations of motion, thus it arises from physical principles and, as such, it is a versatile and reliable numerical method for accurate particle kinematics analysis which can be applied to any live-imaging experiment where the space-time coordinates can be retrieved.

A high order accurate space-time trajectory reconstruction technique for quantitative particle trafficking analysis / Corradi, Eloina; Tavelli, Maurizio; Baudet, Marie-Laure; Boscheri, Walter. - In: APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTATION. - ISSN 0096-3003. - 2024, 480:(2024), pp. 12890201-12890222. [10.1016/j.amc.2024.128902]

A high order accurate space-time trajectory reconstruction technique for quantitative particle trafficking analysis

Corradi, Eloina
;
Tavelli, Maurizio;Baudet, Marie-Laure
;
Boscheri, Walter
2024-01-01

Abstract

The study of moving particles (e.g. molecules, virus, vesicles, organelles, or whole cells) is crucial to decipher a plethora of cellular mechanisms within physiological and pathological conditions. Powerful live-imaging approaches enable life scientists to capture particle movements at different scale from cells to single molecules, that are collected in a series of frames. However, although these events can be captured, an accurate quantitative analysis of live-imaging experiments still remains a challenge. Two main approaches are currently used to study particle kinematics: kymographs, which are graphical representation of spatial motion over time, and single particle tracking (SPT) followed by linear linking. Both kymograph and SPT apply a space-time approximation in quantifying particle kinematics, considering the velocity constant either over several frames or between consecutive frames, respectively. Thus, both approaches intrinsically limit the analysis of complex motions with rapid changes in velocity. Therefore, we design, implement and validate a novel reconstruction algorithm aiming at supporting tracking particle trafficking analysis with mathematical foundations. Our method is based on polynomial reconstruction of 4D (3D+time) particle trajectories, enabling to assess particle instantaneous velocity and acceleration, at any time, over the entire trajectory. Here, the new algorithm is compared to state-of-the-art SPT followed by linear linking, demonstrating an increased accuracy in quantifying particle kinematics. Our approach is directly derived from the governing equations of motion, thus it arises from physical principles and, as such, it is a versatile and reliable numerical method for accurate particle kinematics analysis which can be applied to any live-imaging experiment where the space-time coordinates can be retrieved.
2024
Corradi, Eloina; Tavelli, Maurizio; Baudet, Marie-Laure; Boscheri, Walter
A high order accurate space-time trajectory reconstruction technique for quantitative particle trafficking analysis / Corradi, Eloina; Tavelli, Maurizio; Baudet, Marie-Laure; Boscheri, Walter. - In: APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTATION. - ISSN 0096-3003. - 2024, 480:(2024), pp. 12890201-12890222. [10.1016/j.amc.2024.128902]
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