Human induced pluripotent stem cell formation and morphology prediction during reprogramming with time-lapse bright-field microscopy images using deep learning methods.

Journal: Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
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Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) represent an ideal source for patient specific cell-based regenerative medicine; however, efficiency of hiPSC formation from reprogramming cells is low. We use several deep-learning results from time-lapse brightfield microscopy images during culture, to early detect the cells potentially reprogramming into hiPSCs and predict the colony morphology of these cells for improving efficiency of culturing a new hiPSC line.

Authors

  • Slo-Li Chu
  • Kazuhiro Sudo
  • Hideo Yokota
    Cloud-Based Eye Disease Diagnosis Joint Research Team, RIKEN, Wako, Japan.
  • Kuniya Abe
  • Yukio Nakamura
  • Ming-Dar Tsai