Superhuman cell death detection with biomarker-optimized neural networks

Autor: Jeremy W. Linsley, Drew A. Linsley, Josh Lamstein, Gennadi Ryan, Kevan Shah, Nicholas A. Castello, Viral Oza, Jaslin Kalra, Shijie Wang, Zachary Tokuno, Ashkan Javaherian, Thomas Serre, Steven Finkbeiner
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Science Advances
Science Advances, vol 7, iss 50
ISSN: 2375-2548
Popis: Description
High-throughput microscopy has outpaced analysis; biomarker-optimized CNNs are a generalizable, fast, and interpretable solution.
Cellular events underlying neurodegenerative disease may be captured by longitudinal live microscopy of neurons. While the advent of robot-assisted microscopy has helped scale such efforts to high-throughput regimes with the statistical power to detect transient events, time-intensive human annotation is required. We addressed this fundamental limitation with biomarker-optimized convolutional neural networks (BO-CNNs): interpretable computer vision models trained directly on biosensor activity. We demonstrate the ability of BO-CNNs to detect cell death, which is typically measured by trained annotators. BO-CNNs detected cell death with superhuman accuracy and speed by learning to identify subcellular morphology associated with cell vitality, despite receiving no explicit supervision to rely on these features. These models also revealed an intranuclear morphology signal that is difficult to spot by eye and had not previously been linked to cell death, but that reliably indicates death. BO-CNNs are broadly useful for analyzing live microscopy and essential for interpreting high-throughput experiments.
Databáze: OpenAIRE