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Improved tracking via cell region fingerprints

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TracX shows that fast proofreading of track assignments leads to improved cell tracking performance.

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Fig. 1: Cell tracking with TracX.

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This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health grant P41 GM135019 as well as grant number 2020-225720 from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative DAF, an advised fund of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation.

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