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ArticleNPJ systems biology and applications2025

Biophysical simulation enables segmentation and nervous system atlas mapping for image first spatial omics.

Lina Mohammed Ali, Aldrin Kay Yuen Yim, Emanuel Gerbi, Thien Nguyen, Nicholas Tu, Faith Ikede, Remi Sampaleanu, Diana Grigore, Jason Waligorski, Colin Kremitzki and 5 more

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15 authors.

Lina Mohammed AliDepartment of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0002-9388-4150
Aldrin Kay Yuen YimDepartment of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9562-2328
Emanuel GerbiDepartment of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0005-6314-8402
Thien NguyenDepartment of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0003-1282-4832
Nicholas TuDepartment of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0008-9522-618X
Faith IkedeDepartment of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0007-9847-7032
Remi SampaleanuDepartment of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0008-4533-2363
Diana GrigoreDepartment of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0008-6743-589X
Jason WaligorskiDepartment of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8422-6004
Colin KremitzkiDepartment of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9175-3136
Liya YuanDepartment of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3630-0294
Wendy DongDepartment of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5663-7372
Robi MitraDepartment of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2680-4264
Jeffrey MilbrandtDepartment of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5477-7689
William BuchserDepartment of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA. wbuchser@wustl.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6675-6359

Funding

Multi-omics peripheral nerve atlas enables fine-mapping of pain molecular phenotypesU19NS130607 · NINDS · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI Sheng Chih Jin · 2022 to 2026
$14.0M
INSTITUTIONAL TRAINING GRANT IN GENOMIC SCIENCET32HG000045 · NHGRI · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI MICHAEL R BRENT, Barak A Cohen · 1997 to 2026
$8.4M
NHGRI NIH HHS T32 HG000045NINDS NIH HHS U19 NS130607
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Spatial omics (SO) produces high-definition mapping of subcellular molecules within tissue samples. Mapping transcripts to anatomical regions requires segmentation, but this remains challenging in tissue cross-sections with tubular structures like axons in peripheral nerve or spinal cord. Neural networks could address misidentification but are hindered by the need for extensive human annotations. We present SiDoLa-NS (Simulate, Don't Label-Nervous System), an image-driven (top-down) approach to SO analysis in the nervous system. We utilize biophysical properties of tissue architectures to design synthetic images of tissue samples, eliminating reliance on manual annotation and enabling scalable training data generation. With synthetic samples, we trained supervised instance segmentation convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for nucleus segmentation, achieving precision and F1-scores>0.95. We further identify macroscopic tissue structures in mouse brain (mAP

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Image Processing, Computer-AssistedNervous SystemAnimalsBrainComputational BiologyComputer SimulationHumansMiceNeural Networks, ComputerSciatic NerveSpinal CordSwine

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PMID41392269
PMCPMC12770445

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