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ABSTRACT: Motivation
Reliable label-free methods are needed for detecting and profiling apoptotic events in time-lapse cell-cell interaction assays. Prior studies relied on fluorescent markers of apoptosis, e.g. Annexin-V, that provide an inconsistent and late indication of apoptotic onset for human melanoma cells. Our motivation is to improve the detection of apoptosis by directly detecting apoptotic bodies in a label-free manner.Results
Our trained ResNet50 network identified nanowells containing apoptotic bodies with 92% accuracy and predicted the onset of apoptosis with an error of one frame (5 min/frame). Our apoptotic body segmentation yielded an IoU accuracy of 75%, allowing associative identification of apoptotic cells. Our method detected apoptosis events, 70% of which were not detected by Annexin-V staining.Availability and implementation
Open-source code and sample data provided at https://github.com/kwu14victor/ApoBDproject.
SUBMITTER: Wu KL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10563152 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wu Kwan-Ling KL Martinez-Paniagua Melisa M Reichel Kate K Menon Prashant S PS Deo Shravani S Roysam Badrinath B Varadarajan Navin N
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) 20231001 10
<h4>Motivation</h4>Reliable label-free methods are needed for detecting and profiling apoptotic events in time-lapse cell-cell interaction assays. Prior studies relied on fluorescent markers of apoptosis, e.g. Annexin-V, that provide an inconsistent and late indication of apoptotic onset for human melanoma cells. Our motivation is to improve the detection of apoptosis by directly detecting apoptotic bodies in a label-free manner.<h4>Results</h4>Our trained ResNet50 network identified nanowells c ...[more]