Astrocyte regional heterogeneity revealed through machine learning-based glial neuroanatomical assays.

Autor: Blackburn J; Department of Pathology, Division of Neuropathology, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH, USA.; Department of Biomedical Education & Anatomy, Division of Anatomy, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH, USA., Alves MJ; Department of Pathology, Division of Neuropathology, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH, USA., Aslan MT; Department of Pathology, Division of Neuropathology, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH, USA., Cevik L; Department of Pathology, Division of Neuropathology, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH, USA., Zhao J; Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH, USA., Czeisler CM; Department of Pathology, Division of Neuropathology, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH, USA., Otero JJ; Department of Pathology, Division of Neuropathology, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: The Journal of comparative neurology [J Comp Neurol] 2021 Jul 01; Vol. 529 (10), pp. 2464-2483. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Mar 08.
DOI: 10.1002/cne.25105
Abstrakt: Evaluation of reactive astrogliosis by neuroanatomical assays represents a common experimental outcome for neuroanatomists. The literature demonstrates several conflicting results as to the accuracy of such measures. We posited that the diverging results within the neuroanatomy literature were due to suboptimal analytical workflows in addition to astrocyte regional heterogeneity. We therefore generated an automated segmentation workflow to extract features of glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) and aldehyde dehydrogenase family 1, member L1 (ALDH1L1) labeled astrocytes with and without neuroinflammation. We achieved this by capturing multiplexed immunofluorescent confocal images of mouse brains treated with either vehicle or lipopolysaccharide (LPS) followed by implementation of our workflows. Using classical image analysis techniques focused on pixel intensity only, we were unable to identify differences between vehicle-treated and LPS-treated animals. However, when utilizing machine learning-based algorithms, we were able to (1) accurately predict which objects were derived from GFAP or ALDH1L1-stained images indicating that GFAP and ALDH1L1 highlight distinct morphological aspects of astrocytes, (2) we could predict which neuroanatomical region the segmented GFAP or ALDH1L1 object had been derived from, indicating that morphological features of astrocytes change as a function of neuroanatomical location. (3) We discovered a statistically significant, albeit not highly accurate, prediction of which objects had come from LPS versus vehicle-treated animals, indicating that although features exist capable of distinguishing LPS-treated versus vehicle-treated GFAP and ALDH1L1-segmented objects, that significant overlap between morphologies exists. We further determined that for most classification scenarios, nonlinear models were required for improved treatment class designations. We propose that unbiased automated image analysis techniques coupled with well-validated machine learning tools represent highly useful models capable of providing insights into neuroanatomical assays.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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