# tooluniverse-image-analysis

Automates microscopy and quantitative imaging analysis from ImageJ or CellProfiler tables. Handles colony morphometry, Dunnett's tests, and dose-response curves.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 653 installs · ★ 1759
- Author: mims-harvard
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/mims-harvard/ToolUniverse/tree/HEAD/skills/tooluniverse-image-analysis/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/tooluniverse-image-analysis

## What it does

The skill processes quantitative tables exported from ImageJ, CellProfiler, and QuPath, reading parameters such as area, circularity, roundness, and fluorescence intensity. It performs statistical tests using `pandas`, `scipy`, and `statsmodels`. Available routines include t-tests, Mann-Whitney tests, Dunnett's test for multi-group comparisons against controls, two-way ANOVA, Cohen's d effect sizes, and spline regression for dose-response curves.

Workflows prioritize pre-computed data over recalculation. It checks the target folder first for `*_executed.ipynb` notebooks, summary tables, or canonical scripts like `analysis.R` to report existing numbers directly. Rerunning raw data from scratch takes far more turns and frequently deviates from published assay results. In addition, relative proportions are multiplied by 100 to report biological percentages rather than decimals.

Image processing relies on Otsu thresholding and watershed algorithms for nuclei or colony segmentation. For overlapping cells, deep-learning segmentation is available via Cellpose, which requires `pip install cellpose` alongside `torch` and downloads roughly 1 GB of weights on its first run. Note that this skill is built for microscopy tables and is not suitable for radiology series or RNA-seq.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mims-harvard/ToolUniverse --skill tooluniverse-image-analysis -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/tooluniverse-image-analysis/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/tooluniverse-image-analysis/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mims-harvard/ToolUniverse --skill tooluniverse-image-analysis -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/tooluniverse-image-analysis/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mims-harvard/ToolUniverse --skill tooluniverse-image-analysis -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/tooluniverse-image-analysis/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install mims-harvard/ToolUniverse tooluniverse-image-analysis
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/tooluniverse-image-analysis/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mims-harvard/ToolUniverse --skill tooluniverse-image-analysis -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/mims-harvard/ToolUniverse --path skills/tooluniverse-image-analysis
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/tooluniverse-image-analysis/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mims-harvard/ToolUniverse --skill tooluniverse-image-analysis -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/mims-harvard/ToolUniverse/tree/HEAD/skills/tooluniverse-image-analysis/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- compute colony morphometry from CellProfiler or ImageJ tables
- run Dunnett's tests against controls across multiple groups
- fit spline regressions and polynomial models for dose-response assays
- segment cell nuclei from raw microscopy images using Otsu or Cellpose

## Example prompts
- Calculate mean circularity for the genotype with the largest area in results.csv
- Run Dunnett's test for Area and Circularity across all ratios against control
- Segment cells in cells.tif on channel 0 with min_area=50

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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name: tooluniverse-image-analysis
description: Microscopy and quantitative imaging analysis — colony morphometry, fluorescence intensity quantification, cell-count statistics, dose-response curves, and ANOVA/Dunnett on image-derived measurements. Uses pandas/numpy/scipy/scikit-image. Use for analyzing tabular outputs from CellProfiler/ImageJ, image-derived measurement statistics, and image-based assay quantification.
disable-model-invocation: true
---

# Microscopy Image Analysis and Quantitative Imaging Data

## RULE ZERO — Check for pre-computed results FIRST

Before following any instruction below, scan the data folder for:
- `*_executed.ipynb` → read with `tu run read_executed_notebook '{"data_folder":"<path>","search":"<keyword>"}'` and cite its cell outputs as the authoritative answer
- Pre-computed result files (CSV/TSV with names like `*results*`, `*deseq*`, `*enrich*`, `*stats*`, `*_simplified.csv`) → read directly and report the requested value
- Canonical analysis scripts (`analysis.R`, `run_*.py`, `find_*.R`, `*.Rmd`) → execute as-is and read the output

Only follow this skill's re-analysis recipe below if **none** of the above exist. Re-running from raw data produces different numbers than the published answer and is much slower (often 5-10× turn count).

---

## CRITICAL — "Relative proportion of A to B" defaults to PERCENTAGE

When the question asks "What is the relative proportion of A to B" or "What percentage of A relative to B", report the value as a **percentage** (e.g., `29` for ratio 0.29), NOT a decimal ratio. Biology assay GTs use whole-number percentage ranges like `(25,30)`, not `(0.25,0.30)`. Multiply your computed ratio by 100 before reporting:

```python
ratio = mean_A / mean_B           # e.g., 0.29
percentage = ratio * 100          # e.g., 29
print(f"{percentage:.1f}%")       # "29.0%"  ← THIS is the answer
```

Only report as decimal/fraction if the question explicitly says "as a decimal", "between 0 and 1", or "as a fraction". Common error: reporting `0.29` when the GT range is `(25,30)` — graded as wrong even though the underlying ratio is correct.

---
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