262 research outputs found
Nuclei counting in microscopy images with three dimensional generative adversarial networks
Microscopy image analysis can provide substantial information for clinical study and understanding of biological structures. Two-photon microscopy is a type of fluorescence microscopy that can image deep into tissue with near-infrared excitation light. We are interested in methods that can detect and characterize nuclei in 3D fluorescence microscopy image volumes. In general, several challenges exist for counting nuclei in 3D image volumes. These include “crowding” and touching of nuclei, overlapping of nuclei, and shape and size variances of the nuclei. In this paper, a 3D nuclei counter using two different generative adversarial networks (GAN) is proposed and evaluated. Synthetic data that resembles real microscopy image is generated with a GAN and used to train another 3D GAN that counts the number of nuclei. Our approach is evaluated with respect to the number of groundtruth nuclei and compared with common ways of counting used in the biological research. Fluorescence microscopy 3D image volumes of rat kidneys are used to test our 3D nuclei counter. The accuracy results of proposed nuclei counter are compared with the ImageJ’s 3D object counter (JACoP) and the 3D watershed. Both the counting accuracy and the object-based evaluation show that the proposed technique is successful for counting nuclei in 3D
Three Dimensional Nuclei Segmentation and Classification of Fluorescence Microscopy Images
Segmentation and classification of cell nuclei in fluorescence 3D microscopy image volumes are fundamental steps for image analysis. However, accurate cell nuclei segmentation and detection in microscopy image volumes are hampered by poor image quality, crowding of nuclei, and large variation in nuclei size and shape. In this paper, we present an unsupervised volume to volume translation approach adapted from the Recycle-GAN using modified Hausdorff distance loss for synthetically generating nuclei with better shapes. A 3D CNN with a regularization term is used for nuclei segmentation and classification followed by nuclei boundary refinement. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method can successfully segment nuclei and identify individual nuclei
Opportunities and challenges for deep learning in cell dynamics research
With the growth of artificial intelligence (AI), there has been an increase
in the adoption of computer vision and deep learning (DL) techniques for the
evaluation of microscopy images and movies. This adoption has not only
addressed hurdles in quantitative analysis of dynamic cell biological
processes, but it has also started supporting advances in drug development,
precision medicine and genome-phenome mapping. Here we survey existing AI-based
techniques and tools, and open-source datasets, with a specific focus on the
computational tasks of segmentation, classification, and tracking of cellular
and subcellular structures and dynamics. We summarise long-standing challenges
in microscopy video analysis from the computational perspective and review
emerging research frontiers and innovative applications for deep
learning-guided automation for cell dynamics research
Center-Extraction-Based Three Dimensional Nuclei Instance Segmentation of Fluorescence Microscopy Images
Fluorescence microscopy is an essential tool for the analysis of 3D subcellular structures in tissue. An important step in the characterization of tissue involves nuclei segmentation. In this paper, a two-stage method for segmentation of nuclei using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) is described. In particular, since creating labeled volumes manually for training purposes is not practical due to the size and complexity of the 3D data sets, the paper describes a method for generating synthetic microscopy volumes based on a spatially constrained cycle-consistent adversarial network. The proposed method is tested on multiple real microscopy data sets and outperforms other commonly used segmentation techniques
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