期刊
SENSORS
卷 20, 期 21, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/s20215981
关键词
image processing; lifespan automation; C. elegans
资金
- Universitat Politecnica de Valencia [20170020-UPV]
- Plan Nacional de I+D [RTI2018-094312-B-I00]
- European FEDER funds
- ADM Nutrition
- Biopolis SL
- Archer Daniels Midland
Nowadays, various artificial vision-based machines automate the lifespan assays of C. elegans. These automated machines present wider variability in results than manual assays because in the latter worms can be poked one by one to determine whether they are alive or not. Lifespan machines normally use a dead or alive criterion based on nematode position or pose changes, without poking worms. However, worms barely move on their last days of life, even though they are still alive. Therefore, a long monitoring period is necessary to observe motility in order to guarantee worms are actually dead, or a stimulus to prompt worm movement is required to reduce the lifespan variability measure. Here, a new automated vibrotaxis-based method for lifespan machines is proposed as a solution to prompt a motion response in all worms cultured on standard Petri plates in order to better distinguish between live and dead individuals. This simple automated method allows the stimulation of all animals through the whole plate at the same time and intensity, increasing the experiment throughput. The experimental results exhibited improved live-worm detection using this method, and most live nematodes (>93%) reacted to the vibration stimulus. This method increased machine sensitivity by decreasing results variance by approximately one half (from +/- 1 individual error per plate to +/- 0.6) and error in lifespan curve was reduced as well (from 2.6% to 1.2%).
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