Lifetime Unmixing

This repository hosts code for distinguishing 2 dyes with overlapping spectra via lifetime. Images are 6D (3D FLIM timelapse multichannel).

Installation

Install Miniforge in your computer (which contains mamba.

Clone this repository locally (for example using Github Desktop).

From a command line prompt, navigate to where you cloned this repository locally (for example by typing cd Lifetime-Unmixing) and create a specific conda environment by typing the following line:

mamba env create -f env.yml

Usage

From a terminal, activate the conda environment with:

mamba activate lifetime-env

Then open jupyter lab or your prefered IDE (for example VSCode, Pycharm, etc) and run the code of interest from the "code" folder. Remember to replace the data path with your local path to the images.

We recommend running this code on a powerful workstation, preferably with > 48GB RAM and a GPU.

Acknowledgements

To be added