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As data accuracy is of critical importance for the success of studies in this field, we took a shot to evaluate possible errors introduced in the data by acquisition and processing methods. This article deals with errors introduced by confocal microscope.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Results: In confocal imaging, the inevitable photon noise is commonly reduced by the averaging of multiple frames. The averaging may introduce errors into the data, if single frames are clipped by microscope hardware. A method based on censoring technique is used to estimate and correct this type of errors. Additional source of errors is the quantification of blurred images. To estimate and correct these errors, the Richardson\u2013Lucy deconvolution method was modified to provide the higher accuracy of data read off from blurred images of the Drosophila blastoderm. We have found that the sizes of errors introduced by confocal imaging make up \u223c5\u20137% of the mean intensity values and do not disguise the dynamic behavior and characteristic features of gene expression patterns. We also defined a range of microscope parameters for the acquisition of sufficiently accurate data.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Availability: \u00a0http:\/\/urchin.spbcas.ru\/downloads\/step\/step.htm<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact: \u00a0myasnikova@spbcas.ru<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Supplementary information: \u00a0Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btn620","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2008,12,4]],"date-time":"2008-12-04T01:47:06Z","timestamp":1228355226000},"page":"346-352","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":16,"title":["Estimation of errors introduced by confocal imaging into the data on segmentation gene expression in <i>Drosophila<\/i>"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"25","author":[{"given":"Ekaterina","family":"Myasnikova","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 St Petersburg State Polytechnic University, St Petersburg, 195251, Russia and 2Stony Brook University, New York, 11794-3600, USA"}]},{"given":"Svetlana","family":"Surkova","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 St Petersburg State Polytechnic University, St Petersburg, 195251, Russia and 2Stony Brook University, New York, 11794-3600, USA"}]},{"given":"Lena","family":"Panok","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 St Petersburg State Polytechnic University, St Petersburg, 195251, Russia and 2Stony Brook University, New York, 11794-3600, USA"}]},{"given":"Maria","family":"Samsonova","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 St Petersburg State Polytechnic University, St Petersburg, 195251, Russia and 2Stony Brook University, New York, 11794-3600, USA"}]},{"given":"John","family":"Reinitz","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 St Petersburg State Polytechnic University, St Petersburg, 195251, Russia and 2Stony Brook University, New York, 11794-3600, USA"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2008,12,3]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023013110004115000_B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"260","DOI":"10.1002\/jemt.20294","article-title":"Richardson-lucy algorithm with total variation regularization for 3d confocal microscope deconvolution","volume":"69","author":"Dey","year":"2006","journal-title":"Microsc. 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