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ArticleMethodsX2021

Artificial intelligence-assisted identification and quantification of osteoclasts.

Thomas Emmanuel, Annemarie Brüel, Jesper Skovhus Thomsen, Torben Steiniche, Mikkel Bo Brent

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Article in MethodsX, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. NOISe: Nuclei-Aware Osteoclast Instance Segmentation for Mouse-to-Human Domain Transfer.Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops. IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Workshops · 2024
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  7. Automated Quantification of Human Osteoclasts Using Object Detection.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2022
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5 authors.

Thomas EmmanuelDepartment of Dermatology, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark.
Annemarie BrüelDepartment of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Denmark.
Jesper Skovhus ThomsenDepartment of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Denmark.
Torben SteinicheDepartment of Pathology, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark.
Mikkel Bo BrentDepartment of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Denmark.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Quantification of osteoclasts to assess bone resorption is a time-consuming and tedious process. Since the inception of bone histomorphometry and manual counting of osteoclasts using bright-field microscopy, several approaches have been proposed to accelerate the counting process using both free and commercially available software. However, most of the present alternatives depend on manual or semi-automatic color segmentation and do not take advantage of artificial intelligence (AI). The present study directly compare estimates of osteoclast-covered surfaces (Oc.S/BS) obtained by the conventional manual method using a bright-field microscope to that obtained by a new AI-assisted method. We present a detailed step-by-step guide for the AI-based method. Tibiae from Wistar rats were either enzymatically stained for TRAP or immunostained for cathepsin K to identify osteoclasts. We found that estimation of Oc.S/BS by the new AI-assisted method was considerably less time-consuming, while still providing similar results to the conventional manual method. In addition, the retrainable AI-module used in the present study allows for fully automated overnight batch processing of multiple annotated sections.•Bone histomorphometry•AI-assisted osteoclast identification•TRAP and cathepsin K.

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AI-assisted image processingBone histomorphometryOsteoclasts

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