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Here is an example of a scenario where this program may help you:
You have taken a lot of microscopic images or movies of cells of two or more experimental groups. You now want to find out if there are differences in certain parameters of your cells. If the nature of these parameters is easily measurable (like ‘cell body size’), you will probably use a regular microscopy software to do the job for you.
However, there are many situations where the measuring is not that straight forward, but requires judgment by the researcher (like ‘cells have formed a certain structure or not’). Obviously, in this case there is the risk of being biased if you are aware of the experimental group each image or movie belongs to, which is usually included in the file name of each image or movie.
The program BLINDme helps you to overcome this problem! You simply put your image or movie files in a directory on your computer and BLINDme will rename all files in this directory with a randomly generated file name so that you do not know anymore to which experimental group each image or movie belongs to. In addition, BLINDme generates a text file, which translates each random file name to its original file name. You would then do your judgmental analysis and note your results for each renamed file.
Eventually, you can sort your measurements in the experimental groups by using the translation text file. Also, as BLINDme keeps a record of the entire renaming process, so that you can later reverse the renaming process. |
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This program is made to help analyzing image data in a non-biased, |