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Article Dans Une Revue Biological Imaging Année : 2023

Cell segmentation in images without structural fluorescent labels

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Abstract High-content screening (HCS) provides an excellent tool to understand the mechanism of action of drugs on disease-relevant model systems. Careful selection of fluorescent labels (FLs) is crucial for successful HCS assay development. HCS assays typically comprise (a) FLs containing biological information of interest, and (b) additional structural FLs enabling instance segmentation for downstream analysis. However, the limited number of available fluorescence microscopy imaging channels restricts the degree to which these FLs can be experimentally multiplexed. In this article, we present a segmentation workflow that overcomes the dependency on structural FLs for image segmentation, typically freeing two fluorescence microscopy channels for biologically relevant FLs. It consists in extracting structural information encoded within readouts that are primarily biological, by fine-tuning pre-trained state-of-the-art generalist cell segmentation models for different combinations of individual FLs, and aggregating the respective segmentation results together. Using annotated datasets that we provide, we confirm our methodology offers improvements in performance and robustness across several segmentation aggregation strategies and image acquisition methods, over different cell lines and various FLs. It thus enables the biological information content of HCS assays to be maximized without compromising the robustness and accuracy of computational single-cell profiling.
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hal-04396484 , version 1 (16-01-2024)

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Daniel Zyss, Susana A Ribeiro, Mary J C Ludlam, Thomas Walter, Amin Fehri. Cell segmentation in images without structural fluorescent labels. Biological Imaging, 2023, 3, pp.e16. ⟨10.1017/S2633903X23000168⟩. ⟨hal-04396484⟩
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