Live-Cell Tracking

Cell Tracking

Follow every cell through time, not just count it in one frame.

Point ConductVision Image at a time-lapse video and it detects and links each cell frame by frame — reconstructing trajectories, full division and lineage trees, and population dynamics. You get motion, survival, and proliferation analytics that a single-frame count can never show.

Tracking Result

Trajectories

Lineage tree

Dividing cell Leaf
99.2%
Detection precision
92.7%
Cell recall
Frame-by-frame
Trajectory reconstruction
Lineage + division
Parent → daughter trees
Tracked objects

What you can track

The same detect → link → analyze pipeline runs on four object classes. Set the average diameter to the scale you care about and the tracking tables apply unchanged.

What gets measured

Four measurement tables, one run

Every tracking run produces motion, lineage, temporal, and population tables — all exportable as CSV for Prism, R, or Python.

Motion

Per-cell motion

How far and how directionally each cell travels across its full path.

TotalPathLengthNetDisplacementDirectionalityMean squared displacement (MSD)Start / End / Total frames
Lineage

Division & lineage

The family tree of every cell — who divided, who survived, who was lost.

IsParent / IsDivisionChildren / DescendantsDepth / RootIdIsCensored / IsDeadIsOrphan
Temporal

Population over time

Frame-by-frame curves for the whole population, plotted on the temporal chart.

AvgSpeedProliferationRateSurvivalRate
Population

Forest-level metrics

Whole-experiment summary across every lineage tree in the field.

TreeCount / TotalCellsBranchingRateMaxDepth / MeanDepthLeafFraction / OrphansMaxLifeSec / MeanLifeSec
Visualizations

See the dynamics, not just the numbers

Cell trajectory chart

Plot the path of one cell, a subset, or every cell, with start points marked. Export high-resolution PNG.

Cell division tree

A lineage tree where each node is a cell and each edge is a division — roots, internal divisions, and leaves.

Cell heat map

Spatial density of where cells spend time, mapped blue (low) to red (high) activity across the field.

SpeedProliferationSurvival

Temporal chart

Average speed, proliferation rate, and survival rate plotted frame by frame over the experiment.

Workflow

How It Works

1

Load video

Point a tracking protocol at a time-lapse video and set the trial time range.

2

Set cell size

Draw one average cell diameter so the model calibrates to your imaging scale.

3

Track & review

AI detects and links cells across frames; replay original and processed video side by side.

4

Export

Download motion, lineage, temporal, and population tables as CSV, plus high-resolution charts.

Ready to track your time-lapse experiments?

Request a demo and see ConductVision Image tracking cells on your own videos.

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