Interactive machine learning for fast and robust cell profiling

Autor: Bjørn Sand Jensen, Lisa Laux, Marie F.A. Cutiongco, Nikolaj Gadegaard
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
0301 basic medicine
Computer science
Image Processing
lcsh:Medicine
Cell morphology
computer.software_genre
01 natural sciences
Machine Learning
Software
User experience design
Image Processing
Computer-Assisted

Profiling (information science)
Segmentation
lcsh:Science
Microscopy
Multidisciplinary
Applied Mathematics
Simulation and Modeling
Physical Sciences
Medicine
Engineering and Technology
Algorithms
Research Article
Optimization
Computer and Information Sciences
Adhesion Molecules
Imaging Techniques
Science
Graphics Pipelines
Image processing
Research and Analysis Methods
Machine learning
Machine Learning Algorithms
03 medical and health sciences
Artificial Intelligence
Computational Techniques
Humans
Focal Adhesions
business.industry
lcsh:R
Computational Pipelines
Biology and Life Sciences
Bayes Theorem
Usability
Molecular Development
0104 chemical sciences
010404 medicinal & biomolecular chemistry
Subject-matter expert
030104 developmental biology
Signal Processing
lcsh:Q
Artificial intelligence
business
computer
Mathematics
Developmental Biology
Zdroj: PLoS ONE
PLoS ONE, Vol 15, Iss 9 (2020)
PLOS One
PLoS ONE, Vol 15, Iss 9, p e0237972 (2020)
ISSN: 1932-6203
Popis: Automatic profiling of cell morphology is a powerful tool for inferring cell function. However, this technique retains a high barrier to entry. In particular, configuring image processing parameters for optimal cell profiling is susceptible to cognitive biases and dependent on user experience. Here, we use interactive machine learning to identify the optimum cell profiling configuration that maximises quality of the cell profiling outcome. The process is guided by the user, from whom a rating of the quality of a cell profiling configuration is obtained. We use Bayesian optimisation, an established machine learning algorithm, to learn from this information and automatically recommend the next configuration to examine with the aim to maximize the quality of the processing or analysis. Compared to existing interactive machine learning tools that require domain expertise for per-class or per-pixel annotations, we rely on users explicit assessment of output quality of the cell profiling task at hand. We validated our interactive approach against the standard human trial-and-error scheme to optimise an object segmentation task using the standard software CellProfiler. Our toolkit enabled rapid optimisation of an object segmentation pipeline, increasing the quality of object segmentation over a pipeline optimised through trial-and-error. Users also attested to the ease of use and reduced cognitive load enabled by our machine learning strategy over the standard approach. We envision that our interactive machine learning approach can enhance the quality and efficiency of pipeline optimisation to democratise image-based cell profiling.
Databáze: OpenAIRE