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ArticleBiomolecules2022

AutoCellANLS: An Automated Analysis System for Mycobacteria-Infected Cells Based on Unstained Micrograph.

Yan Zhuang, Xinzhuo Zhao, Zhongbing Huang, Lin Han, Ke Chen, Jiangli Lin

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Article in Biomolecules, 2022. 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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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Yan ZhuangDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China.
Xinzhuo ZhaoDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Shenyang University of Technology, Shenyang 110870, China.
Zhongbing HuangDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China.ORCID 0000-0001-9210-1842
Lin HanDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China.
Ke ChenDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China.
Jiangli LinDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China.
Sichuan University · CNShenyang University of Technology · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) infection plays an important role in the control of tuberculosis (TB), one of the leading infectious diseases in the world. Recent advances in artificial intelligence-aided cellular image processing and analytical techniques have shown great promises in automated Mtb detection. However, current cell imaging protocols often involve costly and time-consuming fluorescence staining, which has become a major bottleneck for procedural automation. To solve this problem, we have developed a novel automated system (AutoCellANLS) for cell detection and the recognition of morphological features in the phase-contrast micrographs by using unsupervised machine learning (UML) approaches and deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). The detection algorithm can adaptively and automatically detect single cells in the cell population by the improved level set segmentation model with the circular Hough transform (CHT). Besides, we have designed a Cell-net by using the transfer learning strategies (TLS) to classify the virulence-specific cellular morphological changes that would otherwise be indistinguishable to the naked eye. The novel system can simultaneously classify and segment microscopic images of the cell populations and achieve an average accuracy of 95.13% for cell detection, 95.94% for morphological classification, 94.87% for sensitivity, and 96.61% for specificity. AutoCellANLS is able to detect significant morphological differences between the infected and uninfected mammalian cells throughout the infection period (2 hpi/12 hpi/24 hpi). Besides, it has overcome the drawback of manual intervention and increased the accuracy by more than 11% compared to our previous work, which used AI-aided imaging analysis to detect mycobacterial infection in macrophages. AutoCellANLS is also efficient and versatile when tailored to different cell lines datasets (RAW264.7 and THP-1 cell). This proof-of concept study provides a novel venue to investigate bacterial pathogenesis at a macroscopic level and offers great promise in the diagnosis of bacterial infections.

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Mycobacterium tuberculosisTuberculosisAnimalsArtificial IntelligenceImage Processing, Computer-AssistedMammalsNeural Networks, Computercell detectioninfection classificationneural networksphase-contrast micrographtuberculosisunsupervised learning

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