Journal
BIOACTIVE MATERIALS
Volume 11, Issue -, Pages 218-229Publisher
KEAI PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.bioactmat.2021.09.018
Keywords
High-throughput; Deep learning; Cell imaging; Refocusing; Microscopy
Funding
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2017YFB0702500]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51933009, 21875210]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [2020FZZX003-01-03]
- Zhejiang Provincial Ten Thousand Talents Program [2018R52001]
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This paper presents a deep learning-based method for the automatic sorting and reconstruction of defocused cell images. A comprehensive dataset is used to establish and test the method, achieving high accuracy. Additionally, subcellular-level reconstruction of heavily defocused cell images is achieved. This method has widespread application value in cell experiments involving high-throughput or time-lapse imaging.
The increasing throughput of experiments in biomaterials research makes automatic techniques more and more necessary. Among all the characterization methods, microscopy makes fundamental contributions to biomaterials science where precisely focused images are the basis of related research. Although automatic focusing has been widely applied in all kinds of microscopes, defocused images can still be acquired now and then due to factors including background noises of materials and mechanical errors. Herein, we present a deep-learning-based method for the automatic sorting and reconstruction of defocused cell images. First, the defocusing problem is illustrated on a high-throughput cell micmarray. Then, a comprehensive dataset of phase-contrast images captured from varied conditions containing multiple cell types, magnifications, and substrate materials is prepared to establish and test our method. We obtain high accuracy of over 0.993 on the dataset using a simple network architecture that requires less than half of the training time compared with the classical ResNetV2 architecture. Moreover, the subcellular-level reconstruction of heavily defocused cell images is achieved with another architecture. The applicability of the established workflow in practice is finally demonstrated on the high-throughput cell microarray. The intelligent workflow does not require a priori knowledge of focusing algorithms, possessing widespread application value in cell experiments concerning high-throughput or time-lapse imaging.
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