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ArticleBMC bioinformatics2021

Ontology-guided segmentation and object identification for developmental mouse lung immunofluorescent images.

Anna Maria Masci, Scott White, Ben Neely, Maryanne Ardini-Polaske, Carol B Hill, Ravi S Misra, Bruce Aronow, Nathan Gaddis, Lina Yang, Susan E Wert and 3 more

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Article in BMC bioinformatics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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  1. LungMAP Portal Ecosystem: Systems-level Exploration of the Lung.American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology · 2024
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13 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

Anna Maria Masci *Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA. annamaria.masci@duke.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1940-6740
Scott White *Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA.
Ben Neely *Duke Crucible, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
Maryanne Ardini-PolaskeRTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA.
Carol B HillDuke Clinical Research Institute, Duke School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA.
Ravi S MisraDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA.
Bruce AronowDepartments of Biomedical Informatics, Developmental Biology, and Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
Nathan GaddisRTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA.
Lina YangDepartment of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA.
Susan E WertDepartment of Pediatrics Perinatal Institute Divisions of Neonatology, Perinatal and Pulmonary Biology Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center/Research Foundation, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
Scott M PalmerVice Chair for Research, Department of Medicine, Director, Respiratory Research, Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.
Cliburn ChanDepartment of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA.
LungMAP Consortium
Duke University · USCincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center · USClinical Research Institute · USRTI International · USUniversity of Rochester Medical Center · US

Funding

The LungMAP Data Coordination Center for Next Gen Systems Biology of RespirationU24HL148865 · NHLBI · CINCINNATI CHILDRENS HOSP MED CTR · PI Bruce J Aronow, Nathan G. Salomonis · 2019 to 2026
$12.4M
Molecular Atlas of Lung Development - Data Coordinating CenterU01HL122638 · NHLBI · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI CLARK, ROBERT F, PALMER, SCOTT M · 2014 to 2018
$7.5M
Biorepository for Investigation of Neonatal Diseases of Lung-Normal (BRINDL-NL)U01HL122700 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER · PI PRYHUBER, GLORIA S · 2014 to 2018
$6.1M
NHLBI NIH HHS 5U01-HL122638NHLBI NIH HHS U01 HL122638NHLBI NIH HHS U01 HL122700NHLBI NIH HHS U24 HL148865
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundImmunofluorescent confocal microscopy uses labeled antibodies as probes against specific macromolecules to discriminate between multiple cell types. For images of the developmental mouse lung, these cells are themselves organized into densely packed higher-level anatomical structures. These types of images can be challenging to segment automatically for several reasons, including the relevance of biomedical context, dependence on the specific set of probes used, prohibitive cost of generating labeled training data, as well as the complexity and dense packing of anatomical structures in the image. The use of an application ontology helps surmount these challenges by combining image data with its metadata to provide a meaningful biological context, modeled after how a human expert would make use of contextual information to identify histological structures, that constrains and simplifies the process of segmentation and object identification.

resultsWe propose an innovative approach for the semi-supervised analysis of complex and densely packed anatomical structures from immunofluorescent images that utilizes an application ontology to provide a simplified context for image segmentation and object identification. We describe how the logical organization of biological facts in the form of an ontology can provide useful constraints that facilitate automatic processing of complex images. We demonstrate the results of ontology-guided segmentation and object identification in mouse developmental lung images from the Bioinformatics REsource ATlas for the Healthy lung database of the Molecular Atlas of Lung Development (LungMAP1) program

conclusionWe describe a novel ontology-guided approach to segmentation and classification of complex immunofluorescence images of the developing mouse lung. The ontology is used to automatically generate constraints for each image based on its biomedical context, which facilitates image segmentation and classification.

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AlgorithmsImage Processing, Computer-AssistedLungMicroscopy, ConfocalAnimalsFluorescent Antibody TechniqueMiceAlgorithmsBiologyImage analysisImage processingMachine learningOntology

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PMID33622235
PMCPMC7901098
OpenAlexW3132201127

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