Deep learning-enhanced automated mitochondrial segmentation in FIB-SEM images using an entropy-weighted ensemble approach.

Autor: Gupta Y; Departamento de Electrónica, Telecomunicações e Informática (DETI), University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal.; Leibniz-Institute of Photonic Technology (Leibniz-IPHT), Jena, Germany., Heintzmann R; Leibniz-Institute of Photonic Technology (Leibniz-IPHT), Jena, Germany.; Institute of Physical Chemistry and Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Jena, Germany., Costa C; Departamento de Electrónica, Telecomunicações e Informática (DETI), University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal., Jesus R; BMD Software, Aveiro, Portugal., Pinho E; BMD Software, Aveiro, Portugal.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: PloS one [PLoS One] 2024 Nov 26; Vol. 19 (11), pp. e0313000. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Nov 26 (Print Publication: 2024).
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0313000
Abstrakt: Mitochondria are intracellular organelles that act as powerhouses by breaking down nutrition molecules to produce adenosine triphosphate (ATP) as cellular fuel. They have their own genetic material called mitochondrial DNA. Alterations in mitochondrial DNA can result in primary mitochondrial diseases, including neurodegenerative disorders. Early detection of these abnormalities is crucial in slowing disease progression. With recent advances in data acquisition techniques such as focused ion beam scanning electron microscopy, it has become feasible to capture large intracellular organelle volumes at data rates reaching 4Tb/minute, each containing numerous cells. However, manually segmenting large data volumes (gigapixels) can be time-consuming for pathologists. Therefore, there is an urgent need for automated tools that can efficiently segment mitochondria with minimal user intervention. Our article proposes an ensemble of two automatic segmentation pipelines to predict regions of interest specific to mitochondria. This architecture combines the predicted outputs from both pipelines using an ensemble learning-based entropy-weighted fusion technique. The methodology minimizes the impact of individual predictions and enhances the overall segmentation results. The performance of the segmentation task is evaluated using various metrics, ensuring the reliability of our results. We used four publicly available datasets to evaluate our proposed method's effectiveness. Our proposed fusion method has achieved a high score in terms of the mean Jaccard index and dice coefficient for all four datasets. For instance, in the UroCell dataset, our proposed fusion method achieved scores of 0.9644 for the mean Jaccard index and 0.9749 for the Dice coefficient. The mean error rate and pixel accuracy were 0.0062 and 0.9938, respectively. Later, we compared it with state-of-the-art methods like 2D and 3D CNN algorithms. Our ensemble approach shows promising segmentation efficiency with minimal intervention and can potentially aid in the early detection and mitigation of mitochondrial diseases.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
(Copyright: © 2024 Gupta et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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