> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.mantlebio.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.
# Tracking single cells in time-lapse microscopy image sequences using SC-Track
Automatically tracking single cells in time-lapse sequences is crucial for many applications, such as understanding cell proliferation or cell migration, or evaluating the effects of therapeutics on cell behavior.
[SC-Track](https://doi.org/10.1093/bib/bbae192) is a multi-object cell tracking algorithm that takes a stack of segmentation masks and produces single-cell tracks.
The Mantle `sc-track` pipeline reads segmentation masks from your Mantle Database, performs cell tracking using SC-Track and recolors the masks to keep the cell identifiers consistent between images, and writes the recolored masks back to your Mantle Database.
