Engineered cardiac microbundle time-lapse microscopy image dataset

The "Microbundle Time-lapse Dataset" contains 24 experimental
time-lapse images of cardiac microbundles using three distinct types of
experimental testbeds. Of the 24 experimental time-lapse images, 23
examples are brightfield videos, and a single example is a phase contrast
video. We categorize the different experimental testbeds into 3 types,
where "Type 1" includes movies obtained from standard
experimental microbundle platforms termed microbundle strain gauges
[1,2,3]. We refer to data collected from non-standard platforms termed
FibroTUGs [4] as "Type 2" data, and "Type 3" data
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