Analysis of Spatial Point Patterns in Microscopic and Macroscopic Biological Image Data

Point process characteristics like for example Ripley’s K-function, the L-function or Baddeley’s J-function are especially useful for cases of data with significant differences with respect to intensities. We will discuss two examples in the fields of cell biology and ecology were these methods can be applied. They have been chosen, because they demonstrate the wide range of applications for the described techniques and because both examples have specific interest- ing properties. While the point patterns regarded in the first application are three dimensional, the second application reveals planar point patterns having a vertically inhomogeneous structure.