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ArticleJIMD reports2021

Automatic quantification of lymphocyte vacuolization in peripheral blood smears of patients with Batten's disease (CLN3 disease).

Lourens J P Nonkes, Willemijn F E Kuper, Karin Berrens-Hogenbirk, Ruben E A Musson, Peter M van Hasselt, Albert Huisman

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Article in JIMD reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Lourens J P NonkesCentral Diagnostic Laboratory University Medical Center Utrecht Utrecht The Netherlands.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4222-9028
Willemijn F E KuperDepartment of Metabolic Diseases, Wilhelmina Children's Hospital, University Medical Center Utrecht Utrecht University Utrecht The Netherlands.
Karin Berrens-HogenbirkCentral Diagnostic Laboratory University Medical Center Utrecht Utrecht The Netherlands.
Ruben E A MussonCentral Diagnostic Laboratory University Medical Center Utrecht Utrecht The Netherlands.
Peter M van HasseltDepartment of Metabolic Diseases, Wilhelmina Children's Hospital, University Medical Center Utrecht Utrecht University Utrecht The Netherlands.
Albert HuismanCentral Diagnostic Laboratory University Medical Center Utrecht Utrecht The Netherlands.
Utrecht University · NL

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Abstract

Quantifying lymphocyte vacuolization in peripheral blood smears (PBSs) serves as a measure for disease severity in CLN3 disease-a lysosomal storage disorder of childhood-onset. However, thus far quantification methods are based on labor-intensive manual assessment of PBSs. As machine learning techniques like convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been deployed quite successfully in detecting pathological features in PBSs, we explored whether these techniques could be utilized to automate quantification of lymphocyte vacuolization. Here, we present and validate a deep learning pipeline that automates quantification of lymphocyte vacuolization. By using two CNNs in succession, trained for cytoplasm-segmentation and vacuolization-detection, respectively, we obtained an excellent correlation with manual quantification of lymphocyte vacuolization (

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CLN3 diseaselymphocyte vacuolizationmachine learningneuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis

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PMID33728252
PMCPMC7932860
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