Background

Starting as a 2 week work experience placement in 2011, I began working with the Cellular Cardiology Research Group at the University of Leeds, with the aim of developing a program for the detection and analysis of Ca²⁺ release events in x-y-t confocal image sequences.

Project

I was the soul programmer on the project. Programs existed for similar analysis of x-t images, however, at the time no such programs existed x-y-t image sequences as the hardware required to produce them was relatively new. It was decided that the program should be written as a plugin for the open-source image analysis suite ImageJ. I continued to work on the project in my spare time and in February 2014 the program was released along with my first paper.

References

For more information and to download the program visit:  http://www.fbs.leeds.ac.uk/staff/Steele/xySpark/

The accompanying paper is available here: http://www.cell.com/biophysj/fulltext/S0006-3495(14)00014-9