Active mesh and neural network pipeline for cell aggregate segmentation
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Journal Article
Abstract
Segmenting cells within cellular aggregates in 3D is a growing challenge in cell biology due to improvements in capacity and accuracy of microscopy techniques. Here, we describe a pipeline to segment images of cell aggregates in 3D. The pipeline combines neural network segmentations with active meshes. We apply our segmentation method to cultured mouse mammary gland organoids imaged over 24 h with oblique plane microscopy, a high-throughput light-sheet fluorescence microscopy technique. We show that our method can also be applied to images of mouse embryonic stem cells imaged with a spinning disc microscope. We segment individual cells based on nuclei and cell membrane fluorescent markers, and track cells over time. We describe metrics to quantify the quality of the automated segmentation. Our segmentation pipeline involves a Fiji plugin that implements active mesh deformation and allows a user to create training data, automatically obtain segmentation meshes from original image data or neural network prediction, and manually curate segmentation data to identify and correct mistakes. Our active meshes-based approach facilitates segmentation postprocessing, correction, and integration with neural network prediction.
Date Issued
2023-05-02
Date Acceptance
2023-03-24
Citation
Biophysical Journal, 2023, 122 (9), pp.1586-1599
ISSN
0006-3495
Publisher
Biophysical Society
Start Page
1586
End Page
1599
Journal / Book Title
Biophysical Journal
Volume
122
Issue
9
Copyright Statement
© 2023 Biophysical Society.
This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006349523002114
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2023-03-30