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Quantitative Bioimaging
 Quantitative Bioimaging
An Introduction to Biology, Instrumentation,
Experiments, and Data Analysis
for Scientists and Engineers

Raimund J. Ober
Centre for Cancer Immunology
Faculty of Medicine
University of Southampton
Southampton, United Kingdom
E. Sally Ward
Centre for Cancer Immunology
Faculty of Medicine
University of Southampton
Southampton, United Kingdom
Jerry Chao
Astero Technologies LLC
College Station, Texas, United States
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Contents

Preface xvii

Acknowledgments xix

I Introduction 1
Overview 3

1 Then and Now 5

2 Introduction to Two Problems in Cellular Biology 7

2.1 Antibody trafficking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.2 Localization experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.3 Association experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.4 Dynamic studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
2.5 Iron transport, transferrin, and the transferrin receptor . . . . . . . . . 13

3 Basics of Microscopy Techniques 17

3.1 Optical microscopy for cell biology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
3.2 Transmitted light microscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
3.3 Fluorescence microscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
3.3.1 Fluorescence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
3.3.2 Layout of an epifluorescence widefield microscope . . . . . . . . 21
3.4 Inverted versus upright microscope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
3.5 Components of commercial microscopes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
3.5.1 Light sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
3.5.2 Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
3.6 Fixed and live cell experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
3.7 Sample preparation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
3.8 A note regarding safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

4 Introduction to Image Formation and Analysis 29

4.1 Image formation and point spread functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
4.2 Resolution: an elementary introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
4.3 Modeling and analyzing the data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Notes 37

Exercises 39

II Biology and Chemistry 41

Overview 43

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5 From genes to proteins 45

5.1 Bonds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
5.2 DNA and genes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
5.3 How are proteins made? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
5.4 Structures of proteins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
5.5 Protein structure determination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

6 Antibodies 65
6.1 Structure of antibodies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
6.2 Variable regions and binding activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
6.3 Constant regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
6.4 Antibody production for laboratory and clinical use . . . . . . . . . . . 71
6.4.1 The classical method: hybridoma technology . . . . . . . . . . . 71
6.5 Diagnostic techniques using antibody detection methods . . . . . . . . . 73
6.5.1 Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
6.5.2 Surface plasmon resonance for the quantitation of the affinity of an
interaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

7 Cloning of genes for protein expression 77

7.1 Features of expression constructs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
7.2 Methods for generating expression plasmids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
7.2.1 Restriction enzymes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
7.2.2 Polymerase chain reaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
7.2.3 Details of approaches for generating expression plasmids . . . . 79
7.2.4 Transfection of mammalian cells for expression . . . . . . . . . . 86
7.3 Antibody engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
7.3.1 Chimeric antibodies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
7.3.2 Humanized antibodies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
7.3.3 Isolation of V regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

8 Principles of Fluorescence 91
8.1 Wave and particle description of light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
8.2 Jablonski diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
8.3 Stokes shift . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
8.4 Photobleaching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
8.5 Photophysical characterization of fluorophores . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
8.5.1 Quantum yield . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
8.5.2 Beer-Lambert law, effective absorption cross section and molar ex-
tinction coefficient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
8.5.3 Brightness of a fluorophore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
8.6 Excitation and emission spectra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
8.7 Fluorophores . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
8.7.1 Chemical fluorescent dyes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
8.7.1.1 Labeling of proteins via cysteine or lysine residues . . . 98
8.7.1.2 Labeling of proteins with fluorophore-conjugated strepta-
vidin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
8.7.1.3 In situ labeling of proteins in cells using peptide tags . 100
8.7.2 Quantum dots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
8.7.2.1 Labeling of proteins with quantum dots . . . . . . . . . 101
8.7.3 Fluorescent proteins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
8.7.4 Photoactivatable and photoswitchable fluorescent probes . . . . 105
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8.7.5 Other labeling modalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

9 Cells 107
9.1 Cellular structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
9.2 Receptors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
9.3 Typical biological systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
9.3.1 Subcellular trafficking of the Fc receptor, FcRn . . . . . . . . . . 112
9.3.2 Subcellular trafficking of the transferrin receptor . . . . . . . . . 112
9.4 Sample preparation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
9.4.1 Labeling of proteins in fixed cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
9.4.2 Sample preparation for typical fixed cell experiments . . . . . . 114
9.4.3 Sample preparation for typical live cell imaging experiments . . 115

Notes 121

Exercises 125

III Optics and Microscopy 127

Overview 129

10 Microscope Designs 131

10.1 Light path for widefield fluorescence microscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
10.1.1 Infinity-corrected light path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
10.2 Imaging in three dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
10.2.1 Focus control and acquisition of z-stacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
10.2.2 Multifocal plane microscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
10.3 Imaging of multiple colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
10.4 Light path for confocal microscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
10.5 Two-photon excitation microscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
10.6 Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
10.6.1 Numerical aperture and immersion medium . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
10.6.2 Corrections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
10.6.3 Transmission efficiency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
10.7 Optical filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
10.7.1 Example: a filter set for a GFP-labeled protein . . . . . . . . . . 145
10.7.2 Imaging of multiple fluorophores . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
10.8 Transmitted light microscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

11 Microscopy Experiments 155

11.1 Fixed cell experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
11.1.1 Localization of FcRn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
11.1.2 Association experiments with FcRn, EEA1, LAMP1, and transfer-
rin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
11.1.3 Pulse-chase verification of fate of mutated IgG . . . . . . . . . . 158
11.2 Imaging a 3D sample . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
11.2.1 Acquisition of z-stacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
11.2.2 Out-of-focus haze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
11.3 Live cell experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
11.3.1 Example: FcRn-mediated IgG trafficking . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
11.4 Total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy (TIRFM) . . . . . . . . 164
11.4.1 Objective-based total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy 164
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11.4.2 Exocytosis imaged by total internal reflection fluorescence mi-

croscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
11.5 pH measurement and ratiometric imaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
11.6 Single molecule microscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
11.6.1 Bulk versus single molecule experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
11.6.2 Single molecule tracking experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
11.6.3 Localization-based super-resolution microscopy . . . . . . . . . . 173
11.6.3.1 Photophysics of the stochastic excitation of organic fluo-
rophores . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
11.6.4 A localization-based super-resolution experiment . . . . . . . . . 177
11.7 Multifocal plane microscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
11.7.1 Focal plane spacing and magnification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
11.7.2 Transferrin trafficking in epithelial cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
11.7.3 Imaging the pathway preceding exocytosis . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

12 Detectors 187
12.1 Photoelectric effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
12.2 Point detectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
12.3 Image detectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
12.3.1 Charge-coupled device (CCD) detectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
12.3.2 Complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) detectors . 191
12.3.3 Electron-multiplying charge-coupled device (EMCCD) detectors 192
12.4 Randomness of photon detection and detector noise sources . . . . . . . 193
12.5 Grayscale and color cameras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
12.6 Specifications of image detectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
12.7 Measurements of detector specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
12.7.1 Determination of CCD and CMOS detector specifications . . . . 199
12.7.1.1 Data model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
12.7.1.2 Linearity of the response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
12.7.1.3 Estimation of electron-count-to-DU conversion factor . 201
12.7.1.4 Estimation of readout noise mean and variance . . . . 202
12.7.1.5 Estimation of mean of dark current . . . . . . . . . . . 202
12.7.2 Determination of EMCCD detector specifications . . . . . . . . 202
12.7.2.1 Data model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
12.7.2.2 Estimation of electron-count-to-DU conversion factor . 203
12.7.2.3 Estimation of readout noise mean and variance . . . . 204

13 Geometrical Optics 205

13.1 Reflection and refraction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
13.1.1 Reflection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
13.1.2 Refractive index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
13.1.3 Snell’s law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
13.1.4 Total internal reflection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
13.1.5 Extreme rays in microscopy optics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
13.2 Lenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
13.2.1 Focal points and focal planes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
13.2.2 Image formation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
13.2.3 Lensmaker’s formula and lens formula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
13.3 Magnification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
13.3.1 Lateral magnification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
13.3.2 Axial magnification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
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13.3.3 Dependence of lateral magnification on axial position . . . . . . 218

13.4 Applications to microscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

14 Diffraction 223
14.1 Wave description of light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
14.1.1 Plane waves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
14.1.1.1 Planes of identical phase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
14.1.1.2 Speed of wave propagation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
14.1.1.3 Wave number and wavelength . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
14.1.1.4 Propagation in different media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
14.1.1.5 Optical path length . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
14.1.2 Spherical waves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
14.1.2.1 Converging and diverging spherical waves . . . . . . . . 228
14.1.3 Spatial part of a wave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
14.2 What does a camera detect? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
14.3 Effect of a thin lens on waves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
14.4 Huygens-Fresnel principle and Fresnel integral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
14.4.1 Huygens-Fresnel principle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
14.5 Imaging through a thin lens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
14.5.1 Amplitude point spread function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
14.5.2 Convolution description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
14.5.3 Relationship to geometrical optics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
14.5.4 Point spread function and Fourier transformation . . . . . . . . 241
14.5.4.1 In-focus point spread function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
14.5.5 Imaging with defocus and the 3D point spread function . . . . . 245
14.5.5.1 3D point spread function evaluated on the optical axis 247
14.5.5.2 Depth of field and depth of focus . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
14.5.5.3 Heuristic 3D resolution criterion . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
14.6 Convolution for intensity profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Notes 255

Exercises 259

IV Data Analysis 263

Overview 265

15 From Photons to Image: Data Models 267

15.1 Accounting for each photon: fundamental data model . . . . . . . . . . 267
15.1.1 Temporal component of photon detection — Poisson process . . 268
15.1.1.1 Mean number of detected photons . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
15.1.2 Spatial component of photon detection — spatial density function 272
15.1.2.1 Translational invariance and image function . . . . . . 273
15.1.3 Background component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
15.1.4 Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
15.2 Practical data models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
15.2.1 Poisson data model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
15.2.2 CCD/CMOS data model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
15.2.3 Deterministic data model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
15.2.3.1 Gaussian approximation for the CCD/CMOS data model 286
15.2.4 EMCCD data model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
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15.2.4.1 High gain approximation for the EMCCD data model . 288
15.2.4.2 Gaussian approximation for the EMCCD data model . 289

16 Parameter Estimation 293

16.1 Maximum likelihood estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
16.1.1 Example 1: mean of a Poisson random variable . . . . . . . . . . 294
16.1.2 Example 2: mean of a Gaussian random variable . . . . . . . . . 295
16.2 Log-likelihood functions for the image data models . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
16.2.1 Log-likelihood function for the fundamental data model . . . . . 297
16.2.1.1 Example 3: Localization of an object with a 2D Gaussian
image profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
16.2.2 Log-likelihood functions for the practical data models . . . . . . 300
16.3 Obtaining the maximum likelihood estimate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
16.4 Maximum likelihood estimation and least squares estimation . . . . . . 303
16.5 Unbiased estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
16.5.1 Example 1: sample mean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
16.5.2 Example 2: sample variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
16.5.3 Example 3: center of mass as an object location estimator under
the fundamental data model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306
16.6 Variance of an estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
16.6.1 Example 1: mean of a Poisson and a Gaussian random variable . 308
16.6.2 Example 2: center of mass as an object location estimator under
the fundamental data model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
16.6.3 Example 3: center of mass as an object location estimator under a
fixed photon count data model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

17 Fisher Information and Cramér-Rao Lower Bound 313

17.1 Cramér-Rao inequality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
17.1.1 Sketch of derivation of Cramér-Rao lower bound . . . . . . . . . 314
17.1.2 Multivariate Cramér-Rao lower bound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
17.1.3 Example 1: mean of a Poisson random variable . . . . . . . . . . 317
17.1.4 Example 2: mean of a Gaussian random variable . . . . . . . . . 318
17.2 Fisher information for the fundamental data model . . . . . . . . . . . . 318
17.2.1 Example: known photon detection rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
17.2.2 Example: known photon distribution profile . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
17.3 Fisher information for the practical data models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
17.3.1 Noise coefficient and the Fisher information . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
17.4 Noise coefficient analysis of the pixel signal level . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
17.4.1 Noise coefficient — an in-depth look . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
17.4.2 Noise coefficient for CCD/CMOS detectors . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
17.4.3 EMCCD detectors as low-light detectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
17.4.4 Comparison of CCD/CMOS and EMCCD detectors . . . . . . . 329
17.5 Fisher information for multi-image data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

18 Localizing Objects and Single Molecules in Two Dimensions 331

18.1 Object localization as a parameter estimation problem . . . . . . . . . . 331
18.2 Example: estimating the location of a single molecule . . . . . . . . . . 333
18.3 How well can the location of an object be estimated? . . . . . . . . . . . 335
18.3.1 Bias of location estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
18.3.1.1 Bias of the center of mass as a location estimator under
the practical data models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338
Contents xiii

18.3.2 Variance of location estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338

18.4 Estimation of other parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340
18.5 Cramér-Rao lower bound for location estimation — fundamental data
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340
18.5.1 Cramér-Rao lower bound for the Airy image function . . . . . . 344
18.5.2 Cramér-Rao lower bound for the 2D Gaussian image function . 346
18.5.3 Extensions to further experimental situations . . . . . . . . . . . 347
18.6 Cramér-Rao lower bound for location estimation — practical data model 348
18.6.1 Poisson data model — effects of pixelation, finite image size, and
background noise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
18.6.2 Localizing objects from CCD/CMOS and EMCCD images . . . 351
18.6.3 Object location makes a difference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354
18.7 Efficiency of estimators: how well is the behavior of estimators described by
the Cramér-Rao lower bound? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356
18.7.1 Fundamental data model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356
18.7.2 Practical data models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
18.8 Approximations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358
18.8.1 Gaussian approximations for the CCD/CMOS and EMCCD data
models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359
18.8.2 Inverse square root approximation of the dependence on the photon
count . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360
18.9 Lower bound as a tool for the design of data analysis . . . . . . . . . . . 360
18.9.1 Choosing the region of interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
18.9.2 Improving estimation performance by adding images . . . . . . . 362
18.10 Example: single molecule localization from experimentally acquired images 363
18.10.1 Choice of data model based on the detector used . . . . . . . . . 365
18.10.2 Modeling the image of the molecule and the background component 365
18.10.3 Determining the “known” parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366
18.10.4 Location estimates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
18.10.5 Initial values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
18.10.6 Assessing the standard deviation of the localization . . . . . . . 368

19 Localizing Objects and Single Molecules in Three Dimensions 371

19.1 Parameter estimation for object localization in three dimensions . . . . 371
19.2 Cramér-Rao lower bound for 3D location estimation — fundamental data 372
19.2.1 3D localization of a point source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374
19.3 Cramér-Rao lower bound for 3D location estimation — practical data . 378
19.4 Depth discrimination problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379
19.5 Dependence of lateral location estimation on the axial position . . . . . 381
19.6 Multifocal plane microscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382
19.6.1 Estimating the axial location from MUM data . . . . . . . . . . 384
19.6.2 Experimental example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386
19.6.3 Maximum likelihood localization with simulated data . . . . . . 386
19.6.4 Overcoming the depth discrimination problem . . . . . . . . . . 389
19.6.5 Zero Fisher information and the depth discrimination problem . 391
19.6.6 Experimental design: finding appropriate focal plane spacings . . 392
19.6.7 Further approaches to address the depth discrimination problem 394
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20 Resolution 395
20.1 Resolution as a parameter estimation problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
20.2 Cramér-Rao lower bound for distance estimation — fundamental data . 395
20.3 Two in-focus objects: an information-theoretic Rayleigh’s criterion . . . 397
20.4 Two objects in 3D space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400
20.5 Cramér-Rao lower bound for distance estimation — practical data . . . 405

21 Deconvolution 411
21.1 The deconvolution problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411
21.2 Discretization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
21.2.1 Linear algebra formulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414
21.3 Linear least squares algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414
21.3.1 Condition number of a matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415
21.3.1.1 Example of an ill-conditioned least squares problem . . 416
21.3.2 Regularization of the least squares problem . . . . . . . . . . . . 416
21.3.2.1 Example continued: regularization of the ill-conditioned
least squares problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417
21.3.3 A Fourier transform approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418
21.4 Maximum likelihood formulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419
21.4.1 Expectation maximization algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419
21.5 Positron emission tomography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
21.5.1 Deconvolution for the Poisson data model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424
21.5.2 An illustrative example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425

22 Spatial Statistics 427

22.1 Formal definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427
22.1.1 Spatial Poisson processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428
22.2 Intensity functions of spatial processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429
22.2.1 Computing the intensity functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430
22.2.2 Stationary point processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431
22.3 K function and L function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432
22.3.1 An example of an inhibition process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433
22.3.2 Estimating the K function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

Notes 439

Exercises 445

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A.1 Tutorial: Poisson and Gaussian random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-1
A.1.1 Poisson random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-3
A.1.1.1 Additivity of Poisson random variables . . . . . . . . . A-4
A.1.2 Gaussian random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-4
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 CHAPTER XXII

Time passed, and I had nearly forgotten Clay and his promises,
when one day a messenger came to me to inform me that my
presence was desired in the Minister’s office. Although this was an
unusual occurrence, I was not much surprised. I had been called by
ministers before for causes of the slightest. A minister is a little tin
god who calls whom he likes, when he likes. Even men of Great
Business hasten to appear when he says “Come.” I was not
prepared, therefore, for any new move, nor did I expect to be
reprimanded by such a mighty personage. I thought I might be
asked to answer some simple questions or be instructed to attend to
some petty office such as replacing some favoured one who had
been given leave of absence. Ministers condescend to interest
themselves in small things sometimes. Judge, then, of my
astonishment on entering the minister’s office, when he received me
in his very smoothest manner. I was positively frightened.
“Ah! good morning, Mr. Wesblock,” he said, rising and offering me
his plump but firm hand. “Sit down.”
I sat. My face, no doubt, showed my astonishment, for he laughed
softly.
“Mr. Wesblock,” said my Minister, still smiling, “we have met
before, I think, eh?”
“We have, sir,” I said, “but I hardly think you remember it.”
“I remember it very well,” he said. “You see our meeting was an
incident too good to be kept, so your friend Mr. Clay has told it to
several of my friends, through whom it comes to me.” And he again
laughed softly at my evident embarrassment. I was thunderstruck.
“I am very sorry, Mr. Minister,” I stammered; “Mr. Clay has been
very unkind in repeating what I told him. I assure you there was no
malicious intention on my part.”
“Tut, tut,” said the Minister, “don’t apologise. You acted wisely, and
Clay was not unkind. The mistake was mine.”
“I am very sorry;” I began again lamely.
“No necessity to be sorry,” said he. “I have a sense of humour, and
quite understand how the whole thing came about. Clay has told me
everything.”
“I am obliged to Mr. Clay,” I said, rising from my chair with as
much dignity as I could command. I was very uncomfortable, and
hoped the roasting was over.
“Pray sit down,” said the Minister. “I wish to talk to you.”
Again I sat.
“I understand,” he said, “that you do not like pot holes.”
“Not particularly,” I replied, wondering what was coming next.
“You consider yourself above pot holes?” he asked.
“I admit the charge,” I said.
“Very good,” said the Minister. “You do not desire to leave the
Service, Mr. Clay tells me.”
“Mr. Clay has also told you why, I suppose,” I replied, beginning to
have a hazy idea that all was well.
“Yes,” replied he, “and I have looked into your case. You have a
good record for fifteen years.”
“Thank you,” I said.
“I will not prolong your discomfort,” said he. “I propose to increase
your responsibilities and your salary. You may thank our accidental
meeting and Mr. Clay for this.”
I expressed my gratefulness as well as I could and left the
minister’s office the most dazed Civil servant that ever existed. My
exit amused the Minister greatly. He shook me by the hand once
more and wished me well, and as the door closed behind me I could
hear his soft laugh. His promise was promptly carried out, and I left
pot holes for ever shortly after my memorable visit to his office. It
was well for me that he was prompt in this, for before many months
had passed a measure which seemed good to the Government
seemed bad to the people, and my Minister went down in the
overthrow.

Here I close my tale; my further doings would be an entirely

different story. I was anchored for life with a future before me of
comparative comfort as well assured as can be expected in the
affairs of humanity. I close my memoirs at the age of fifty, because I
was a boy till then, but no longer. I matured so late in life that my
boyhood lingered beyond its time. I have said comparatively little
about the Civil Service. I would have said more had I been able to
use names and recent incidents bringing my history up to date. But
being forced to generalise and use fictitious names, I have had to be
content with giving a mere sketch of my experience.
No one can understand the Civil Service unless he has lived in it
for a long period of years and can look backward. I see it now as a
clumsy, powerful machine guided by unskilled hands; or a great
foolish, good-natured, long-suffering giant allowing himself to be
bullied by pygmies—short-sighted, self-seeking, ignorant and
stubborn pygmies; or, let us say, little strutting bantams whose lives
are only a few days long. But in that brief tenure, they never tire of
harrying and baiting the great giant who will surely walk on all their
little graves.
The Civil Service suffers and will suffer, for many years to come,
from the dead weight of the human culls and misfits dumped into it
by the official and professional politician. It is really a great deal
better than might be expected, considering the handicap under
which it does a great work. To say that it is corrupt or inefficient, as
if it were the actual cause of its own failings and shortcomings, is
foolish. It is exactly what politicians have made it, and the politician
in his turn is the exact logical product of his time. A virtuous and
honest people produces virtuous and upright politicians; upright
politicians make a clean and efficient Civil Service. The failings of the
Civil Service are the failings of the people for whom it works. In
short, a country has the government it deserves to have, and what
the government is the Civil Service is.
Now, to end the chronicle, if I have any readers, I am quite aware
that the large majority of them will declare my tale to be the story of
a failure. But it is not so. What is success? I reply that I do not
know. It is one thing to one man and another to another. And even if
the world consider me as a failure, it must recognise that I failed in
more things than most men because I tried more things. And if the
output of energy is the measure of a man, these failures were only
episodes of a struggle toward a more human ideal of life.
I had a many-sided character to satisfy. I desired all things which
seemed good to me: a happy home, love, beautiful children, music,
literature, and the stage. I have been great in nothing; yet have I
tasted all things and partly satisfied all my cravings. This book is one
of my failures, but one, I persist, that makes for human experience.
Since the days of which I tell dire things have happened to me. I
have seen my poor old father, who loved me well, fall into premature
senile decay and die leaving my dear mother to make the short end
of the road alone. I have seen beguiling, attractive depravity take
away from me the little girl who was born at the mill, marry her,
break her heart, and kill her. On the other hand, I have seen my son
grow up and make a man of himself, marry the right woman (who is
so rarely found), and prosper. I have seen my Third Beloved grow in
beauty and character and mate with a man of heart and mind. All
these things have I seen; and my grand-children and I have kept
One Beloved at our side; and last, but by no means least, life has
spared me Muriel; and the world seems good. Therefore, write me
not down a failure.
THE TEMPLE PRESS, PRINTERS, LETCHWORTH
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pg 61 Changed: But with perseverence, patience and time
to: But with perseverance, patience and time
pg 82 Changed: with much love to aid the deliverence
to: with much love to aid the deliverance
pg 100 Changed: no knowledge of its pecularities
to: no knowledge of its peculiarities
pg 111 Changed: glad to possess, except perhaps perseverence
to: glad to possess, except perhaps perseverance
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