Concepts

This section provides background information and theoretical context for Celldetective. Unlike practical guides or tutorials, these pages explain why things are done a certain way and define the core abstractions used throughout the software.

Data Organization

How Celldetective structures projects, experiments, well folders, and metadata.

Data organization
Segmentation Strategies

The logic behind separating cell populations and refining masks.

Population-specific segmentation
Events

The theoretical framework for defining and detecting single-cell events.

Single-Cell Event
Survival Analysis

How survival theory is adapted for cellular event duration analysis.

Survival function
Neighborhoods

Definitions of cellular interaction and proximity metrics.

Neighborhood