Methodology for comprehensive cell-level analysis of wound healing experiments using deep learning in MATLAB.

Journal: BMC molecular and cell biology
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Endothelial healing after deployment of cardiovascular devices is particularly important in the context of clinical outcome. It is therefore of great interest to develop tools for a precise prediction of endothelial growth after injury in the process of implant deployment. For experimental investigation of re-endothelialization in vitro cell migration assays are routinely used. However, semi-automatic analyses of live cell images are often based on gray value distributions and are as such limited by image quality and user dependence. The rise of deep learning algorithms offers promising opportunities for application in medical image analysis. Here, we present an intelligent cell detection (iCD) approach for comprehensive assay analysis to obtain essential characteristics on cell and population scale.

Authors

  • Jan Oldenburg
    Institute for ImplantTechnology and Biomaterials e.V, Rostock, Germany. jan.oldenburg@uni-rostock.de.
  • Lisa Maletzki
    Department of Internal Medicine, Cardiology, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.
  • Anne Strohbach
    Department of Internal Medicine, Cardiology, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.
  • Paul BellĂ©
    Institute for ImplantTechnology and Biomaterials e.V, Rostock, Germany.
  • Stefan Siewert
    Institute for ImplantTechnology and Biomaterials e.V, Rostock, Germany.
  • Raila Busch
    Department of Internal Medicine, Cardiology, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.
  • Stephan B Felix
    Department of Internal Medicine, Cardiology, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.
  • Klaus-Peter Schmitz
    Institute for ImplantTechnology and Biomaterials e.V, Rostock, Germany.
  • Michael Stiehm
    Institute for ImplantTechnology and Biomaterials e.V, Rostock, Germany.