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ArticleFrontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology2023

Computational approaches for evaluating morphological changes in the corneal stroma associated with decellularization.

Igor V Pantic, Jelena Cumic, Svetlana Valjarevic, Adeeba Shakeel, Xinyu Wang, Hema Vurivi, Sayel Daoud, Vincent Chan, Georg A Petroianu, Meklit G Shibru and 5 more

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Article in Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Igor V PanticDepartment of Medical Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Visegradska 26/II, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.
Jelena CumicFaculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, University Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia.
Svetlana ValjarevicFaculty of Medicine, Clinical Hospital Center Zemun, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.
Adeeba ShakeelDepartment of Immunology and Physiology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Xinyu WangDepartment of Immunology and Physiology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Hema VuriviCenter for Biotechnology, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Sayel DaoudAnatomical Pathology Laboratory, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Vincent ChanBiomedical Engineering, Healthcare Engineering Innovation Center, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Georg A PetroianuDepartment of Pharmacology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Meklit G ShibruDepartment of Immunology and Physiology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Zehara M AliDepartment of Immunology and Physiology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Dejan NesicDepartment of Medical Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Visegradska 26/II, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.
Ahmed E SalihDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Haider ButtDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Peter R CorridonDepartment of Immunology and Physiology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Khalifa University of Science and Technology · AEUniversity of Belgrade · RSUniversity of Haifa · IL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Decellularized corneas offer a promising and sustainable source of replacement grafts, mimicking native tissue and reducing the risk of immune rejection post-transplantation. Despite great success in achieving acellular scaffolds, little consensus exists regarding the quality of the decellularized extracellular matrix. Metrics used to evaluate extracellular matrix performance are study-specific, subjective, and semi-quantitative. Thus, this work focused on developing a computational method to examine the effectiveness of corneal decellularization. We combined conventional semi-quantitative histological assessments and automated scaffold evaluations based on textual image analyses to assess decellularization efficiency. Our study highlights that it is possible to develop contemporary machine learning (ML) models based on random forests and support vector machine algorithms, which can identify regions of interest in acellularized corneal stromal tissue with relatively high accuracy. These results provide a platform for developing machine learning biosensing systems for evaluating subtle morphological changes in decellularized scaffolds, which are crucial for assessing their functionality.

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corneacorneal stromadecellualrizationGLCM (gray level co-event matrix)keratocytes

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