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Workshop: CODEML: Championing Open-source DEvelopment in Machine Learning

LIB_NAME: API-first feature extraction for image-based profiling workflows

Ala Muñoz · Tim Treis · Alexandr A. Kalinin · Shatavisha Dasgupta · Fabian Theis · Anne Carpenter · Shantanu Singh

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Fri 18 Jul 2:15 p.m. PDT — 3 p.m. PDT

Abstract:

Biological image analysis has traditionally focused on measuring specific visual properties of interest for cells or other entities. A complementary paradigm gaining increasing traction is image-based profiling - quantifying many distinct visual features to form comprehensive profiles which may reveal hidden patterns in cellular states, drug responses, and disease mechanisms.While current tools like CellProfiler can generate these feature sets, they pose significant barriers to automated and reproducible analyses, hindering machine learning workflows. Here we introduce LIBNAME, a Python library that extracts CellProfiler's core measurement capabilities into a modular, API-first tool designed for programmatic feature extraction. We demonstrate that LIB_NAME features retain high fidelity with CellProfiler features while enabling seamless integration with the scientific Python ecosystem. Through applications to 3D astrocyte imaging and spatial transcriptomics, we showcase how LIBNAME enables reproducible, automated image-based profiling pipelines that scale effectively for machine learning applications in computational biology.

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