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It is particularly useful for extracting information about disease states, tissue heterogeneity and cell specific parameters such as cell type or cell size from biological specimens. However, the information obtained from the images is likely to be subjected to sampling and observational bias with respect to the underlying cell size\/type distributions.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>We present an algorithm, Estimate Tissue Cell Size\/Type Distribution (EstiTiCS), for the adjustment of the underestimation of the number of small cells and the size of measured cells while accounting for the section thickness independent of the tissue type. We introduce the sources of bias under different tissue distributions and their effect on the measured values with simulation experiments. Furthermore, we demonstrate our method on histological sections of paraffin-embedded adipose tissue sample images from 57 people from a dietary intervention study. This data consists of measured cell size and its distribution over the dietary intervention period at four time points. Adjusting for the bias with EstiTiCS results in a closer fit to the true\/expected adipocyte size distribution with earlier studies. Therefore, we conclude that our method is suitable as the final step in estimating the tissue wide cell type\/size distribution from microscopy imaging pipeline.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Availability and Implementation<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Source code and its documentation are available at https:\/\/github.com\/michaelLenz\/EstiTiCS. The whole pipeline of our method is implemented in R and makes use of the \u2018nloptr\u2019 package. Adipose tissue data used for this study are available on request.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Contact<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Michael.Lenz@Maastrichtuniversity.nl, Gokhan.Ertaylan@Maastrichtuniversity.nl<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btw431","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2016,9,1]],"date-time":"2016-09-01T07:53:39Z","timestamp":1472716419000},"page":"i396-i404","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":23,"title":["Estimating real cell size distribution from cross-section microscopy imaging"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"32","author":[{"given":"Michael","family":"Lenz","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Maastricht Centre for Systems Biology (MaCSBio), Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands"}]},{"given":"Nadia JT","family":"Roumans","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Human Biology NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands"}]},{"given":"Roel G","family":"Vink","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Human Biology NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands"}]},{"given":"Marleen A","family":"van Baak","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Human Biology NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands"}]},{"given":"Edwin CM","family":"Mariman","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Human Biology NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands"}]},{"given":"Ilja CW","family":"Arts","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Maastricht Centre for Systems Biology (MaCSBio), Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands"}]},{"given":"Theo M","family":"de Kok","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Maastricht Centre for Systems Biology (MaCSBio), Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands"}]},{"given":"G\u00f6khan","family":"Ertaylan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Maastricht Centre for Systems Biology (MaCSBio), Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2016,8,29]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023020113250834000_btw431-B1","first-page":"239","article-title":"Estimation of nuclear population from microtome sections","volume":"94","author":"Abercrombie","year":"1946","journal-title":"Anat. 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