An enhanced loss function simplifies the deep learning model for characterizing the 3D organoid models.

Journal: Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)
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Abstract

MOTIVATION: Organization of the organoid models, imaged in 3D with a confocal microscope, is an essential morphometric index to assess responses to stress or therapeutic targets. In fact, differentiating malignant and normal cells is often difficult in monolayer cultures. But in 3D culture, colony organization can provide a clear set of indices for differentiating malignant and normal cells. The limiting factors are delineating each cell in a 3D colony in the presence of perceptual boundaries between adjacent cells and heterogeneity associated with cells being at different cell cycles.

Authors

  • Garrett Winkelmaier
    Electrical and Biomedical Department, University of Nevada, Reno, 1664 N. Virginia, Reno, USA.
  • Bahram Parvin