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. 2018 Jul 17;5:180129. doi: 10.1038/sdata.2018.129

Table 8. Structure of the CSV track file.

Row 1 VideoID [string] dx [um] dy [um] dz [um] dt [s]
The position of the centroids of all the cells tracked in a video was saved in a ASCII CSV file. Columns are delimited by the semicolon separator and rows are terminated by CR LF. The first row reports the identifier of the video, including the eventual suffix "a" or "b". The second to the fifth columns report the voxel size (dx,dy,dz) and the time interval (dt). The second row specifies in which channel (Ch) cells appear in the video. From the third to the last row, the coordinates of cells are saved. The first column represents the unique identifier of a track, not varying for the entire track duration. The second to fifth columns (x, y, z, t) represent the position of the cell with respect to the top-up-left most corner of the z-stack at a specific time point. Coordinates are expressed in μm while the time point is an integer number.          
  video identifier voxel size (x) voxel size (y) voxel size (z) time interval
Row 2 ch0 [bool] ch1 [bool] ch2 [bool] ch3 [bool] ch4 [bool]
  visible in channel 0 visible in channel 1 visible in channel 2 visible in channel 3 visible in channel 4
Rows 3 to end TrackID [string] x [um] y [um] z [um] t [INT]
  unique track identifier position (x) position (y) position (z) time instant