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Zhao Y, Chen KL, Shen XY, Li MK, Wan YJ, Yang C, Yu RJ, Long YT, Yan F, Ying YL. HFM-Tracker: a cell tracking algorithm based on hybrid feature matching. Analyst 2024; 149:2629-2636. [PMID: 38563459 DOI: 10.1039/d4an00199k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/04/2024]
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Cell migration is known to be a fundamental biological process, playing an essential role in development, homeostasis, and diseases. This paper introduces a cell tracking algorithm named HFM-Tracker (Hybrid Feature Matching Tracker) that automatically identifies cell migration behaviours in consecutive images. It combines Contour Attention (CA) and Adaptive Confusion Matrix (ACM) modules to accurately capture cell contours in each image and track the dynamic behaviors of migrating cells in the field of view. Cells are firstly located and identified via the CA module-based cell detection network, and then associated and tracked via a cell tracking algorithm employing a hybrid feature-matching strategy. This proposed HFM-Tracker exhibits superiorities in cell detection and tracking, achieving 75% in MOTA (Multiple Object Tracking Accuracy) and 65% in IDF1 (ID F1 score). It provides quantitative analysis of the cell morphology and migration features, which could further help in understanding the complicated and diverse cell migration processes.
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- Yan Zhao
- School of Information Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, 200237 Shanghai, P. R. China.
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Molecular Sensing and Imaging Center (MSIC), Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, P. R. China.
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- School of Electronic Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Molecular Sensing and Imaging Center (MSIC), Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, P. R. China.
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- School of Information Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, 200237 Shanghai, P. R. China.
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- School of Electronic Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Molecular Sensing and Imaging Center (MSIC), Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, P. R. China.
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Molecular Sensing and Imaging Center (MSIC), Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, P. R. China.
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- School of Electronic Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China
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- School of Information Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, 200237 Shanghai, P. R. China.
- Chemistry and Biomedicine Innovation Center, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, P. R. China
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Wu H, Niyogisubizo J, Zhao K, Meng J, Xi W, Li H, Pan Y, Wei Y. A Weakly Supervised Learning Method for Cell Detection and Tracking Using Incomplete Initial Annotations. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:16028. [PMID: 38003217 PMCID: PMC10670924 DOI: 10.3390/ijms242216028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2023] [Revised: 08/18/2023] [Accepted: 09/06/2023] [Indexed: 11/26/2023] Open
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The automatic detection of cells in microscopy image sequences is a significant task in biomedical research. However, routine microscopy images with cells, which are taken during the process whereby constant division and differentiation occur, are notoriously difficult to detect due to changes in their appearance and number. Recently, convolutional neural network (CNN)-based methods have made significant progress in cell detection and tracking. However, these approaches require many manually annotated data for fully supervised training, which is time-consuming and often requires professional researchers. To alleviate such tiresome and labor-intensive costs, we propose a novel weakly supervised learning cell detection and tracking framework that trains the deep neural network using incomplete initial labels. Our approach uses incomplete cell markers obtained from fluorescent images for initial training on the Induced Pluripotent Stem (iPS) cell dataset, which is rarely studied for cell detection and tracking. During training, the incomplete initial labels were updated iteratively by combining detection and tracking results to obtain a model with better robustness. Our method was evaluated using two fields of the iPS cell dataset, along with the cell detection accuracy (DET) evaluation metric from the Cell Tracking Challenge (CTC) initiative, and it achieved 0.862 and 0.924 DET, respectively. The transferability of the developed model was tested using the public dataset FluoN2DH-GOWT1, which was taken from CTC; this contains two datasets with reference annotations. We randomly removed parts of the annotations in each labeled data to simulate the initial annotations on the public dataset. After training the model on the two datasets, with labels that comprise 10% cell markers, the DET improved from 0.130 to 0.903 and 0.116 to 0.877. When trained with labels that comprise 60% cell markers, the performance was better than the model trained using the supervised learning method. This outcome indicates that the model's performance improved as the quality of the labels used for training increased.
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- Hao Wu
- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Intelligent Bioinformatics and Center for High Performance Computing, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China; (H.W.); (J.N.); (K.Z.); (J.M.); (W.X.)
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Intelligent Bioinformatics and Center for High Performance Computing, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China; (H.W.); (J.N.); (K.Z.); (J.M.); (W.X.)
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Intelligent Bioinformatics and Center for High Performance Computing, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China; (H.W.); (J.N.); (K.Z.); (J.M.); (W.X.)
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Intelligent Bioinformatics and Center for High Performance Computing, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China; (H.W.); (J.N.); (K.Z.); (J.M.); (W.X.)
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Intelligent Bioinformatics and Center for High Performance Computing, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China; (H.W.); (J.N.); (K.Z.); (J.M.); (W.X.)
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- Institute of Biomedicine and Biotechnology, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China;
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- College of Computer Science and Control Engineering, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China;
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Intelligent Bioinformatics and Center for High Performance Computing, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China; (H.W.); (J.N.); (K.Z.); (J.M.); (W.X.)
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Alieva M, Wezenaar AKL, Wehrens EJ, Rios AC. Bridging live-cell imaging and next-generation cancer treatment. Nat Rev Cancer 2023; 23:731-745. [PMID: 37704740 DOI: 10.1038/s41568-023-00610-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/25/2023] [Indexed: 09/15/2023]
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By providing spatial, molecular and morphological data over time, live-cell imaging can provide a deeper understanding of the cellular and signalling events that determine cancer response to treatment. Understanding this dynamic response has the potential to enhance clinical outcome by identifying biomarkers or actionable targets to improve therapeutic efficacy. Here, we review recent applications of live-cell imaging for uncovering both tumour heterogeneity in treatment response and the mode of action of cancer-targeting drugs. Given the increasing uses of T cell therapies, we discuss the unique opportunity of time-lapse imaging for capturing the interactivity and motility of immunotherapies. Although traditionally limited in the number of molecular features captured, novel developments in multidimensional imaging and multi-omics data integration offer strategies to connect single-cell dynamics to molecular phenotypes. We review the effect of these recent technological advances on our understanding of the cellular dynamics of tumour targeting and discuss their implication for next-generation precision medicine.
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- Maria Alieva
- Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Instituto de Investigaciones Biomedicas Sols-Morreale (IIBM), CSIC-UAM, Madrid, Spain
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- Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Oncode Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
- Oncode Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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- Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
- Oncode Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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Kostrykin L, Rohr K. Superadditivity and Convex Optimization for Globally Optimal Cell Segmentation Using Deformable Shape Models. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PATTERN ANALYSIS AND MACHINE INTELLIGENCE 2023; 45:3831-3847. [PMID: 35737620 DOI: 10.1109/tpami.2022.3185583] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Cell nuclei segmentation is challenging due to shape variation and closely clustered or partially overlapping objects. Most previous methods are not globally optimal, limited to elliptical models, or are computationally expensive. In this work, we introduce a globally optimal approach based on deformable shape models and global energy minimization for cell nuclei segmentation and cluster splitting. We propose an implicit parameterization of deformable shape models and show that it leads to a convex energy. Convex energy minimization yields the global solution independently of the initialization, is fast, and robust. To jointly perform cell nuclei segmentation and cluster splitting, we developed a novel iterative global energy minimization method, which leverages the inherent property of superadditivity of the convex energy. This property exploits the lower bound of the energy of the union of the models and improves the computational efficiency. Our method provably determines a solution close to global optimality. In addition, we derive a closed-form solution of the proposed global minimization based on the superadditivity property for non-clustered cell nuclei. We evaluated our method using fluorescence microscopy images of five different cell types comprising various challenges, and performed a quantitative comparison with previous methods. Our method achieved state-of-the-art or improved performance.
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Gan J, Cho JH, Lee R, Naghizadeh A, Poon LY, Wang E, Hui Z, Liu D. Methods of Machine Learning-Based Chimeric Antigen Receptor Immunological Synapse Quality Quantification. Methods Mol Biol 2023; 2654:493-502. [PMID: 37106203 PMCID: PMC10812845 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-3135-5_32] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/29/2023]
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Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR)-mediated immunotherapy shows promising results for refractory blood cancers. Currently, six CAR-T drugs have been approved by U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Theoretically, CAR-T cells must form an effective immunological synapse (IS, an interface between effective cells and their target cells) with their susceptible tumor cells to eliminate tumor cells. Previous studies show that CAR IS quality can be used as a predictive functional biomarker for CAR-T immunotherapies. However, quantification of CAR-T IS quality is clinically challenging. Machine learning (ML)-based CAR-T IS quality quantification has been proposed previously.Here, we show an easy-to-use, step-by-step approach to predicting the efficacy of CAR-modified cells using ML-based CAR IS quality quantification. This approach will guide the users on how to use ML-based CAR IS quality quantification in detail, which include: how to image CAR IS on the glass-supported planar lipid bilayer, how to define the CAR IS focal plane, how to segment the CAR IS images, and how to quantify the IS quality using ML-based algorithms.This approach will significantly enhance the accuracy and proficiency of CAR IS prediction in research.
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- Julian Gan
- Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine, Rutgers University-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine, Rutgers University-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, USA
- Center for Immunity and Inflammation, New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine, Rutgers University-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine, Rutgers University-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine, Rutgers University-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine, Rutgers University-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine, Rutgers University-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine, Rutgers University-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, USA.
- Center for Immunity and Inflammation, New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, USA.
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Alabdaly AA, El-Sayed WG, Hassan YF. RAMRU-CAM: Residual-Atrous MultiResUnet with Channel Attention Mechanism for cell segmentation. JOURNAL OF INTELLIGENT & FUZZY SYSTEMS 2022. [DOI: 10.3233/jifs-222631] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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The task of cell segmentation in microscope images is difficult and popular. In recent years, deep learning-based techniques have made incredible progress in medical and microscopy image segmentation applications. In this paper, we propose a novel deep learning approach called Residual-Atrous MultiResUnet with Channel Attention Mechanism (RAMRU-CAM) for cell segmentation, which combines MultiResUnet architecture with Channel Attention Mechanism (CAM) and Residual-Atrous connections. The Residual-Atrous path mitigates the semantic gap between the encoder and decoder stages and manages the spatial dimension of feature maps. Furthermore, the Channel Attention Mechanism (CAM) blocks are used in the decoder stages to better maintain the spatial details before concatenating the feature maps from the encoder phases to the decoder phases. We evaluated our proposed model on the PhC-C2DH-U373 and Fluo-N2DH-GOWT1 datasets. The experimental results show that our proposed model outperforms recent variants of the U-Net model and the state-of-the-art approaches. We have demonstrated how our model can segment cells precisely while using fewer parameters and low computational complexity.
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- Ammar A. Alabdaly
- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
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- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
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- Faculty of Computer and Data Science, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
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Baar S, Kuragano M, Tokuraku K, Watanabe S. Towards a comprehensive approach for characterizing cell activity in bright-field microscopic images. Sci Rep 2022; 12:16884. [PMID: 36207347 PMCID: PMC9546915 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-20598-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2022] [Accepted: 09/15/2022] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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When studying physical cellular response observed by light microscopy, variations in cell behavior are difficult to quantitatively measure and are often only discussed on a subjective level. Hence, cell properties are described qualitatively based on a researcher’s impressions. In this study, we aim to define a comprehensive approach to estimate the physical cell activity based on migration and morphology based on statistical analysis of a cell population within a predefined field of view and timespan. We present quantitative measurements of the influence of drugs such as cytochalasin D and taxol on human neuroblastoma, SH-SY5Y cell populations. Both chemicals are well known to interact with the cytoskeleton and affect the cell morphology and motility. Being able to compute the physical properties of each cell for a given observation time, requires precise localization of each cell even when in an adhesive state, where cells are not visually differentiable. Also, the risk of confusion through contaminants is desired to be minimized. In relation to the cell detection process, we have developed a customized encoder-decoder based deep learning cell detection and tracking procedure. Further, we discuss the accuracy of our approach to quantify cell activity and its viability in regard to the cell detection accuracy.
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- Stefan Baar
- Graduate School of Engineering, Muroran Institute of Technology, 27-1 Mizumoto-cho, Muroran, Hokkaido, 050-8585, Japan
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- Graduate School of Engineering, Muroran Institute of Technology, 27-1 Mizumoto-cho, Muroran, Hokkaido, 050-8585, Japan
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- Graduate School of Engineering, Muroran Institute of Technology, 27-1 Mizumoto-cho, Muroran, Hokkaido, 050-8585, Japan
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- Graduate School of Engineering, Muroran Institute of Technology, 27-1 Mizumoto-cho, Muroran, Hokkaido, 050-8585, Japan.
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Liang P, Zhang Y, Ding Y, Chen J, Madukoma CS, Weninger T, Shrout JD, Chen DZ. H-EMD: A Hierarchical Earth Mover's Distance Method for Instance Segmentation. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MEDICAL IMAGING 2022; 41:2582-2597. [PMID: 35446762 DOI: 10.1109/tmi.2022.3169449] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Deep learning (DL) based semantic segmentation methods have achieved excellent performance in biomedical image segmentation, producing high quality probability maps to allow extraction of rich instance information to facilitate good instance segmentation. While numerous efforts were put into developing new DL semantic segmentation models, less attention was paid to a key issue of how to effectively explore their probability maps to attain the best possible instance segmentation. We observe that probability maps by DL semantic segmentation models can be used to generate many possible instance candidates, and accurate instance segmentation can be achieved by selecting from them a set of "optimized" candidates as output instances. Further, the generated instance candidates form a well-behaved hierarchical structure (a forest), which allows selecting instances in an optimized manner. Hence, we propose a novel framework, called hierarchical earth mover's distance (H-EMD), for instance segmentation in biomedical 2D+time videos and 3D images, which judiciously incorporates consistent instance selection with semantic-segmentation-generated probability maps. H-EMD contains two main stages: (1) instance candidate generation: capturing instance-structured information in probability maps by generating many instance candidates in a forest structure; (2) instance candidate selection: selecting instances from the candidate set for final instance segmentation. We formulate a key instance selection problem on the instance candidate forest as an optimization problem based on the earth mover's distance (EMD), and solve it by integer linear programming. Extensive experiments on eight biomedical video or 3D datasets demonstrate that H-EMD consistently boosts DL semantic segmentation models and is highly competitive with state-of-the-art methods.
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Arbelle A, Cohen S, Raviv TR. Dual-Task ConvLSTM-UNet for Instance Segmentation of Weakly Annotated Microscopy Videos. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MEDICAL IMAGING 2022; PP:1948-1960. [PMID: 35180079 DOI: 10.1109/tmi.2022.3152927] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are considered state of the art segmentation methods for biomedical images in general and microscopy sequences of living cells, in particular. The success of the CNNs is attributed to their ability to capture the structural properties of the data, which enables accommodating complex spatial structures of the cells, low contrast, and unclear boundaries. However, in their standard form CNNs do not exploit the temporal information available in time-lapse sequences, which can be crucial to separating touching and partially overlapping cell instances. In this work, we exploit cell dynamics using a novel CNN architecture which allows multi-scale spatio-temporal feature extraction. Specifically, a novel recurrent neural network (RNN) architecture is proposed based on the integration of a Convolutional Long Short Term Memory (ConvLSTM) network with the U-Net. The proposed ConvLSTM-UNet network is constructed as a dual-task network to enable training with weakly annotated data, in the form of approximate cell centers, termed markers, when the complete cells' outlines are not available. We further use the fast marching method to facilitate the partitioning of clustered cells into individual connected components. Finally, we suggest an adaptation of the method for 3D microscopy sequences without drastically increasing the computational load. The method was evaluated on the Cell Segmentation Benchmark and was ranked among the top three methods on six submitted datasets. Exploiting the proposed built-in marker estimator we also present state-of-the-art cell detection results for an additional, publicly available, weekly annotated dataset. The source code is available at https://gitlab.com/shaked0/lstmUnet.
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Lee K, Lu R, Luther K, Seung HS. Learning and Segmenting Dense Voxel Embeddings for 3D Neuron Reconstruction. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MEDICAL IMAGING 2021; 40:3801-3811. [PMID: 34270419 PMCID: PMC8692755 DOI: 10.1109/tmi.2021.3097826] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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We show dense voxel embeddings learned via deep metric learning can be employed to produce a highly accurate segmentation of neurons from 3D electron microscopy images. A "metric graph" on a set of edges between voxels is constructed from the dense voxel embeddings generated by a convolutional network. Partitioning the metric graph with long-range edges as repulsive constraints yields an initial segmentation with high precision, with substantial accuracy gain for very thin objects. The convolutional embedding net is reused without any modification to agglomerate the systematic splits caused by complex "self-contact" motifs. Our proposed method achieves state-of-the-art accuracy on the challenging problem of 3D neuron reconstruction from the brain images acquired by serial section electron microscopy. Our alternative, object-centered representation could be more generally useful for other computational tasks in automated neural circuit reconstruction.
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Löffler K, Scherr T, Mikut R. A graph-based cell tracking algorithm with few manually tunable parameters and automated segmentation error correction. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0249257. [PMID: 34492015 PMCID: PMC8423278 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0249257] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2021] [Accepted: 08/03/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Automatic cell segmentation and tracking enables to gain quantitative insights into the processes driving cell migration. To investigate new data with minimal manual effort, cell tracking algorithms should be easy to apply and reduce manual curation time by providing automatic correction of segmentation errors. Current cell tracking algorithms, however, are either easy to apply to new data sets but lack automatic segmentation error correction, or have a vast set of parameters that needs either manual tuning or annotated data for parameter tuning. In this work, we propose a tracking algorithm with only few manually tunable parameters and automatic segmentation error correction. Moreover, no training data is needed. We compare the performance of our approach to three well-performing tracking algorithms from the Cell Tracking Challenge on data sets with simulated, degraded segmentation—including false negatives, over- and under-segmentation errors. Our tracking algorithm can correct false negatives, over- and under-segmentation errors as well as a mixture of the aforementioned segmentation errors. On data sets with under-segmentation errors or a mixture of segmentation errors our approach performs best. Moreover, without requiring additional manual tuning, our approach ranks several times in the top 3 on the 6th edition of the Cell Tracking Challenge.
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- Katharina Löffler
- Institute for Automation and Applied Informatics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
- Institute of Biological and Chemical Systems - Biological Information Processing, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
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- Institute for Automation and Applied Informatics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
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- Institute for Automation and Applied Informatics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
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Nishimura K, Wang C, Watanabe K, Fei Elmer Ker D, Bise R. Weakly supervised cell instance segmentation under various conditions. Med Image Anal 2021; 73:102182. [PMID: 34340103 DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2021.102182] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/24/2020] [Revised: 07/14/2021] [Accepted: 07/14/2021] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Cell instance segmentation is important in biomedical research. For living cell analysis, microscopy images are captured under various conditions (e.g., the type of microscopy and type of cell). Deep-learning-based methods can be used to perform instance segmentation if sufficient annotations of individual cell boundaries are prepared as training data. Generally, annotations are required for each condition, which is very time-consuming and labor-intensive. To reduce the annotation cost, we propose a weakly supervised cell instance segmentation method that can segment individual cell regions under various conditions by only using rough cell centroid positions as training data. This method dramatically reduces the annotation cost compared with the standard annotation method of supervised segmentation. We demonstrated the efficacy of our method on various cell images; it outperformed several of the conventional weakly-supervised methods on average. In addition, we demonstrated that our method can perform instance cell segmentation without any manual annotation by using pairs of phase contrast and fluorescence images in which cell nuclei are stained as training data.
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- Kazuya Nishimura
- Department of Advanced Information Technology, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
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- Institute for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR
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- Institute for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR; School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR; Key Laboratory for Regenerative Medicine, Ministry of Education, School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR; Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Prince of Wales Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
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- Department of Advanced Information Technology, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
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Deep probabilistic tracking of particles in fluorescence microscopy images. Med Image Anal 2021; 72:102128. [PMID: 34229189 DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2021.102128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2020] [Revised: 05/14/2021] [Accepted: 05/26/2021] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Tracking of particles in temporal fluorescence microscopy image sequences is of fundamental importance to quantify dynamic processes of intracellular structures as well as virus structures. We introduce a probabilistic deep learning approach for fluorescent particle tracking, which is based on a recurrent neural network that mimics classical Bayesian filtering. Compared to previous deep learning methods for particle tracking, our approach takes into account uncertainty, both aleatoric and epistemic uncertainty. Thus, information about the reliability of the computed trajectories is determined. Manual tuning of tracking parameters is not necessary and prior knowledge about the noise statistics is not required. Short and long-term temporal dependencies of individual object dynamics are exploited for state prediction, and assigned detections are used to update the predicted states. For correspondence finding, we introduce a neural network which computes assignment probabilities jointly across multiple detections as well as determines the probabilities of missing detections. Training requires only simulated data and therefore tedious manual annotation of ground truth is not needed. We performed a quantitative performance evaluation based on synthetic and real 2D as well as 3D fluorescence microscopy images. We used image data of the Particle Tracking Challenge as well as real time-lapse fluorescence microscopy images displaying virus structures and chromatin structures. It turned out that our approach yields state-of-the-art results or improves the tracking results compared to previous methods.
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Cascarano P, Comes MC, Mencattini A, Parrini MC, Piccolomini EL, Martinelli E. Recursive Deep Prior Video: A super resolution algorithm for time-lapse microscopy of organ-on-chip experiments. Med Image Anal 2021; 72:102124. [PMID: 34157611 DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2021.102124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2020] [Revised: 05/26/2021] [Accepted: 05/28/2021] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Biological experiments based on organ-on-chips (OOCs) exploit light Time-Lapse Microscopy (TLM) for a direct observation of cell movement that is an observable signature of underlying biological processes. A high spatial resolution is essential to capture cell dynamics and interactions from recorded experiments by TLM. Unfortunately, due to physical and cost limitations, acquiring high resolution videos is not always possible. To overcome the problem, we present here a new deep learning-based algorithm that extends the well-known Deep Image Prior (DIP) to TLM Video Super Resolution without requiring any training. The proposed Recursive Deep Prior Video method introduces some novelties. The weights of the DIP network architecture are initialized for each of the frames according to a new recursive updating rule combined with an efficient early stopping criterion. Moreover, the DIP loss function is penalized by two different Total Variation-based terms. The method has been validated on synthetic, i.e., artificially generated, as well as real videos from OOC experiments related to tumor-immune interaction. The achieved results are compared with several state-of-the-art trained deep learning Super Resolution algorithms showing outstanding performances.
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- Pasquale Cascarano
- Department of Mathematics, University of Bologna, Piazza di Porta S. Donato 5, Bologna 40126, Italy
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- Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Tor Vergata, Via del Politecnico 1, Rome 00133, Italy; Interdisciplinary Center for Advanced Studies on Lab-on-Chip and Organ-on-Chip Applications (ICLOC), University of Tor Vergata, Via del Politecnico 1, Rome 00133, Italy.
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- Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Tor Vergata, Via del Politecnico 1, Rome 00133, Italy; Interdisciplinary Center for Advanced Studies on Lab-on-Chip and Organ-on-Chip Applications (ICLOC), University of Tor Vergata, Via del Politecnico 1, Rome 00133, Italy
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- Institute Curie, Centre de Recherche, Paris Sciences et Lettres Research University, Paris 75005, France
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Mura Anteo Zamboni 7, Bologna 40126, Italy
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- Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Tor Vergata, Via del Politecnico 1, Rome 00133, Italy; Interdisciplinary Center for Advanced Studies on Lab-on-Chip and Organ-on-Chip Applications (ICLOC), University of Tor Vergata, Via del Politecnico 1, Rome 00133, Italy
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Faster Mean-shift: GPU-accelerated clustering for cosine embedding-based cell segmentation and tracking. Med Image Anal 2021; 71:102048. [PMID: 33872961 DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2021.102048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2020] [Revised: 10/15/2020] [Accepted: 03/20/2021] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
Abstract
Recently, single-stage embedding based deep learning algorithms gain increasing attention in cell segmentation and tracking. Compared with the traditional "segment-then-associate" two-stage approach, a single-stage algorithm not only simultaneously achieves consistent instance cell segmentation and tracking but also gains superior performance when distinguishing ambiguous pixels on boundaries and overlaps. However, the deployment of an embedding based algorithm is restricted by slow inference speed (e.g., ≈1-2 min per frame). In this study, we propose a novel Faster Mean-shift algorithm, which tackles the computational bottleneck of embedding based cell segmentation and tracking. Different from previous GPU-accelerated fast mean-shift algorithms, a new online seed optimization policy (OSOP) is introduced to adaptively determine the minimal number of seeds, accelerate computation, and save GPU memory. With both embedding simulation and empirical validation via the four cohorts from the ISBI cell tracking challenge, the proposed Faster Mean-shift algorithm achieved 7-10 times speedup compared to the state-of-the-art embedding based cell instance segmentation and tracking algorithm. Our Faster Mean-shift algorithm also achieved the highest computational speed compared to other GPU benchmarks with optimized memory consumption. The Faster Mean-shift is a plug-and-play model, which can be employed on other pixel embedding based clustering inference for medical image analysis. (Plug-and-play model is publicly available: https://github.com/masqm/Faster-Mean-Shift).
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He S, Minn KT, Solnica-Krezel L, Anastasio MA, Li H. Deeply-supervised density regression for automatic cell counting in microscopy images. Med Image Anal 2021; 68:101892. [PMID: 33285481 PMCID: PMC7856299 DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2020.101892] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2020] [Revised: 11/06/2020] [Accepted: 11/07/2020] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
Abstract
Accurately counting the number of cells in microscopy images is required in many medical diagnosis and biological studies. This task is tedious, time-consuming, and prone to subjective errors. However, designing automatic counting methods remains challenging due to low image contrast, complex background, large variance in cell shapes and counts, and significant cell occlusions in two-dimensional microscopy images. In this study, we proposed a new density regression-based method for automatically counting cells in microscopy images. The proposed method processes two innovations compared to other state-of-the-art density regression-based methods. First, the density regression model (DRM) is designed as a concatenated fully convolutional regression network (C-FCRN) to employ multi-scale image features for the estimation of cell density maps from given images. Second, auxiliary convolutional neural networks (AuxCNNs) are employed to assist in the training of intermediate layers of the designed C-FCRN to improve the DRM performance on unseen datasets. Experimental studies evaluated on four datasets demonstrate the superior performance of the proposed method.
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- Shenghua He
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63110 USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63110 USA; Department of Developmental Biology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63110 USA
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- Department of Developmental Biology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63110 USA; Center of Regenerative Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63110 USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801 USA.
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801 USA; Cancer Center at Illinois, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801 USA; Carle Cancer Center, Carle Foundation Hospital, Urbana, IL 61801 USA.
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Liu D, Zhang D, Song Y, Huang H, Cai W. Panoptic Feature Fusion Net: A Novel Instance Segmentation Paradigm for Biomedical and Biological Images. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON IMAGE PROCESSING : A PUBLICATION OF THE IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING SOCIETY 2021; 30:2045-2059. [PMID: 33449878 DOI: 10.1109/tip.2021.3050668] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
Abstract
Instance segmentation is an important task for biomedical and biological image analysis. Due to the complicated background components, the high variability of object appearances, numerous overlapping objects, and ambiguous object boundaries, this task still remains challenging. Recently, deep learning based methods have been widely employed to solve these problems and can be categorized into proposal-free and proposal-based methods. However, both proposal-free and proposal-based methods suffer from information loss, as they focus on either global-level semantic or local-level instance features. To tackle this issue, we present a Panoptic Feature Fusion Net (PFFNet) that unifies the semantic and instance features in this work. Specifically, our proposed PFFNet contains a residual attention feature fusion mechanism to incorporate the instance prediction with the semantic features, in order to facilitate the semantic contextual information learning in the instance branch. Then, a mask quality sub-branch is designed to align the confidence score of each object with the quality of the mask prediction. Furthermore, a consistency regularization mechanism is designed between the semantic segmentation tasks in the semantic and instance branches, for the robust learning of both tasks. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed PFFNet, which outperforms several state-of-the-art methods on various biomedical and biological datasets.
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Scherr T, Löffler K, Böhland M, Mikut R. Cell segmentation and tracking using CNN-based distance predictions and a graph-based matching strategy. PLoS One 2020; 15:e0243219. [PMID: 33290432 PMCID: PMC7723299 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0243219] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2020] [Accepted: 11/17/2020] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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The accurate segmentation and tracking of cells in microscopy image sequences is an important task in biomedical research, e.g., for studying the development of tissues, organs or entire organisms. However, the segmentation of touching cells in images with a low signal-to-noise-ratio is still a challenging problem. In this paper, we present a method for the segmentation of touching cells in microscopy images. By using a novel representation of cell borders, inspired by distance maps, our method is capable to utilize not only touching cells but also close cells in the training process. Furthermore, this representation is notably robust to annotation errors and shows promising results for the segmentation of microscopy images containing in the training data underrepresented or not included cell types. For the prediction of the proposed neighbor distances, an adapted U-Net convolutional neural network (CNN) with two decoder paths is used. In addition, we adapt a graph-based cell tracking algorithm to evaluate our proposed method on the task of cell tracking. The adapted tracking algorithm includes a movement estimation in the cost function to re-link tracks with missing segmentation masks over a short sequence of frames. Our combined tracking by detection method has proven its potential in the IEEE ISBI 2020 Cell Tracking Challenge (http://celltrackingchallenge.net/) where we achieved as team KIT-Sch-GE multiple top three rankings including two top performances using a single segmentation model for the diverse data sets.
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- Tim Scherr
- Institute for Automation and Applied Informatics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
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- Institute for Automation and Applied Informatics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
- Institute of Biological and Chemical Systems - Biological Information Processing, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
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- Institute for Automation and Applied Informatics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
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- Institute for Automation and Applied Informatics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
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Deng S, Zhang X, Yan W, Chang EIC, Fan Y, Lai M, Xu Y. Deep learning in digital pathology image analysis: a survey. Front Med 2020; 14:470-487. [PMID: 32728875 DOI: 10.1007/s11684-020-0782-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2019] [Accepted: 03/05/2020] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
Abstract
Deep learning (DL) has achieved state-of-the-art performance in many digital pathology analysis tasks. Traditional methods usually require hand-crafted domain-specific features, and DL methods can learn representations without manually designed features. In terms of feature extraction, DL approaches are less labor intensive compared with conventional machine learning methods. In this paper, we comprehensively summarize recent DL-based image analysis studies in histopathology, including different tasks (e.g., classification, semantic segmentation, detection, and instance segmentation) and various applications (e.g., stain normalization, cell/gland/region structure analysis). DL methods can provide consistent and accurate outcomes. DL is a promising tool to assist pathologists in clinical diagnosis.
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- Shujian Deng
- School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, China
- Key Laboratory of Biomechanics and Mechanobiology of Ministry of Education and State Key Laboratory of Software Development Environment, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, China
- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, China
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- School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, China
- Key Laboratory of Biomechanics and Mechanobiology of Ministry of Education and State Key Laboratory of Software Development Environment, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, China
- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, China
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- School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, China
- Key Laboratory of Biomechanics and Mechanobiology of Ministry of Education and State Key Laboratory of Software Development Environment, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, China
- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, China
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- School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, China
- Key Laboratory of Biomechanics and Mechanobiology of Ministry of Education and State Key Laboratory of Software Development Environment, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, China
- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, China
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- Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310007, China
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- School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, China.
- Key Laboratory of Biomechanics and Mechanobiology of Ministry of Education and State Key Laboratory of Software Development Environment, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, China.
- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, China.
- Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, 100080, China.
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Yudistira N, Kavitha M, Itabashi T, Iwane AH, Kurita T. Prediction of Sequential Organelles Localization under Imbalance using A Balanced Deep U-Net. Sci Rep 2020; 10:2626. [PMID: 32060319 PMCID: PMC7021757 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-59285-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2019] [Accepted: 01/27/2020] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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Assessing the structure and function of organelles in living organisms of the primitive unicellular red algae Cyanidioschyzon merolae on three-dimensional sequential images demands a reliable automated technique in the class imbalance among various cellular structures during mitosis. Existing classification networks with commonly used loss functions were focused on larger numbers of cellular structures that lead to the unreliability of the system. Hence, we proposed a balanced deep regularized weighted compound dice loss (RWCDL) network for better localization of cell organelles. Specifically, we introduced two new loss functions, namely compound dice (CD) and RWCD by implementing multi-class variant dice and weighting mechanism, respectively for maximizing weights of peroxisome and nucleus among five classes as the main contribution of this study. We extended the Unet-like convolution neural network (CNN) architecture for evaluating the ability of our proposed loss functions for improved segmentation. The feasibility of the proposed approach is confirmed with three different large scale mitotic cycle data set with different number of occurrences of cell organelles. In addition, we compared the training behavior of our designed architectures with the ground truth segmentation using various performance measures. The proposed balanced RWCDL network generated the highest area under the curve (AUC) value in elevating the small and obscure peroxisome and nucleus, which is 30% higher than the network with commonly used mean square error (MSE) and dice loss (DL) functions. The experimental results indicated that the proposed approach can efficiently identify the cellular structures, even when the contour between the cells is obscure and thus convinced that the balanced deep RWCDL approach is reliable and can be helpful for biologist to accurately identify the relationship between the cell behavior and structures of cell organelles during mitosis.
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- Novanto Yudistira
- Hiroshima University, Department of Information Engineering, Higashi Hiroshima, 739-8521, Japan.
- Universitas Brawijaya, Fakultas Ilmu Komputer, Malang, 65145, Indonesia.
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- Hiroshima University, Department of Information Engineering, Higashi Hiroshima, 739-8521, Japan
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- Riken, Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Laboratory for Cell Field Structure, Higashi Hiroshima, 739-0046, Japan
- Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Higashi Hiroshima, 739-0046, Japan
- Osaka University, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan
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- Riken, Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Laboratory for Cell Field Structure, Higashi Hiroshima, 739-0046, Japan
- Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Higashi Hiroshima, 739-0046, Japan
- Osaka University, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan
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- Hiroshima University, Department of Information Engineering, Higashi Hiroshima, 739-8521, Japan
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Spilger R, Imle A, Lee JY, Muller B, Fackler OT, Bartenschlager R, Rohr K. A Recurrent Neural Network for Particle Tracking in Microscopy Images Using Future Information, Track Hypotheses, and Multiple Detections. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON IMAGE PROCESSING : A PUBLICATION OF THE IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING SOCIETY 2020; 29:3681-3694. [PMID: 31940539 DOI: 10.1109/tip.2020.2964515] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Automatic tracking of particles in time-lapse fluorescence microscopy images is essential for quantifying the dynamic behavior of subcellular structures and virus structures. We introduce a novel particle tracking approach based on a deep recurrent neural network architecture that exploits past and future information in both forward and backward direction. Assignment probabilities are determined jointly across multiple detections, and the probability of missing detections is computed. In addition, existence probabilities are determined by the network to handle track initiation and termination. For correspondence finding, track hypotheses are propagated to future time points so that information at later time points can be used to resolve ambiguities. A handcrafted similarity measure and handcrafted motion features are not necessary. Manually labeled data is not required for network training. We evaluated the performance of our approach using image data of the Particle Tracking Challenge as well as real fluorescence microscopy image sequences of virus structures. It turned out that the proposed approach outperforms previous methods.
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