Community-developed checklists for publishing images and image analysis
Abstract
Images document scientific discoveries and are prevalent in modern biomedical research. Microscopy imaging in particular is currently undergoing rapid technological advancements. However for scientists wishing to publish the obtained images and image analyses results, there are to date no unified guidelines. Consequently, microscopy images and image data in publications may be unclear or difficult to interpret. Here we present community-developed checklists for preparing light microscopy images and image analysis for publications. These checklists offer authors, readers, and publishers key recommendations for image formatting and annotation, color selection, data availability, and for reporting image analysis workflows. The goal of our guidelines is to increase the clarity and reproducibility of image figures and thereby heighten the quality of microscopy data is in publications.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2302.07005,
title = {Community-developed checklists for publishing images and image analysis},
author = {Christopher Schmied and Michael Nelson and Sergiy Avilov and Gert-Jan Bakker and Cristina Bertocchi and Johanna Bischof and Ulrike Boehm and Jan Brocher and Mariana Carvalho and Catalin Chiritescu and Jana Christopher and Beth Cimini and Eduardo Conde-Sousa and Michael Ebner and Rupert Ecker and Kevin Eliceiri and Julia Fernandez-Rodriguez and Nathalie Gaudreault and Laurent Gelman and David Grunwald and Tingting Gu and Nadia Halidi and Mathias Hammer and Matthew Hartley and Marie Held and Florian Jug and Varun Kapoor and Ayse Aslihan Koksoy and Judith Lacoste and Sylvia Le Dévédec and Sylvie Le Guyader and Penghuan Liu and Gabriel Martins and Aastha Mathur and Kota Miura and Paula Montero Llopis and Roland Nitschke and Alison North and Adam Parslow and Alex Payne-Dwyer and Laure Plantard and Ali Rizwan and Britta Schroth-Diez and Lucas Schütz and Ryan T. Scott and Arne Seitz and Olaf Selchow and Ved Sharma and Martin Spitaler and Sathya Srinivasan and Caterina Strambio De Castillia and Douglas Taatjes and Christian Tischer and Helena Klara Jambor},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.07005},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
28 pages, 8 Figures, 3 Supplmentary Figures, Manuscript, Essential recommendations for publication of microscopy image data