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ArticleScientific reports2016

Automatic stage identification of Drosophila egg chamber based on DAPI images.

Dongyu Jia, Qiuping Xu, Qian Xie, Washington Mio, Wu-Min Deng

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Article in Scientific reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 70 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Dongyu JiaDepartment of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4370, USA.
Qiuping XuDepartment of Mathematics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4510, USA.
Qian XieDepartment of Statistics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4330, USA.
Washington MioDepartment of Mathematics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4510, USA.
Wu-Min DengDepartment of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4370, USA.
Florida State University · US

Funding

Notch signaling and germline-soma interactions in the Drosophila ovarian modelR01GM072562 · NIGMS · TULANE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA · PI DENG, WU-MIN · 2006 to 2025
$5.6M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM072562NIGMS NIH HHS R01GM072562
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Drosophila egg chamber, whose development is divided into 14 stages, is a well-established model for developmental biology. However, visual stage determination can be a tedious, subjective and time-consuming task prone to errors. Our study presents an objective, reliable and repeatable automated method for quantifying cell features and classifying egg chamber stages based on DAPI images. The proposed approach is composed of two steps: 1) a feature extraction step and 2) a statistical modeling step. The egg chamber features used are egg chamber size, oocyte size, egg chamber ratio and distribution of follicle cells. Methods for determining the on-site of the polytene stage and centripetal migration are also discussed. The statistical model uses linear and ordinal regression to explore the stage-feature relationships and classify egg chamber stages. Combined with machine learning, our method has great potential to enable discovery of hidden developmental mechanisms.

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Microscopy, FluorescenceOogenesisAnimalsCell MovementDrosophilaFemaleGerm CellsGerm-Line MutationMitosisOocytesOvarian FollicleOvary

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PMID26732176
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