期刊
BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOENGINEERING
卷 111, 期 3, 页码 504-517出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/bit.25115
关键词
confluency; morphology; cell density; adherent cells; phase contrast microscopy; image-processing; on-line monitoring
资金
- British Heart Foundation [SP/08/004]
- UCL-BE Peter Dunnill Scholarship
- UCL Overseas Research Scholarship
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/I005471/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/I005471/1] Funding Source: UKRI
The quantitative determination of key adherent cell culture characteristics such as confluency, morphology, and cell density is necessary for the evaluation of experimental outcomes and to provide a suitable basis for the establishment of robust cell culture protocols. Automated processing of images acquired using phase contrast microscopy (PCM), an imaging modality widely used for the visual inspection of adherent cell cultures, could enable the non-invasive determination of these characteristics. We present an image-processing approach that accurately detects cellular objects in PCM images through a combination of local contrast thresholding and post hoc correction of halo artifacts. The method was thoroughly validated using a variety of cell lines, microscope models and imaging conditions, demonstrating consistently high segmentation performance in all cases and very short processing times (<1s per 1,208x960pixels image). Based on the high segmentation performance, it was possible to precisely determine culture confluency, cell density, and the morphology of cellular objects, demonstrating the wide applicability of our algorithm for typical microscopy image processing pipelines. Furthermore, PCM image segmentation was used to facilitate the interpretation and analysis of fluorescence microscopy data, enabling the determination of temporal and spatial expression patterns of a fluorescent reporter. We created a software toolbox (PHANTAST) that bundles all the algorithms and provides an easy to use graphical user interface. Source-code for MATLAB and ImageJ is freely available under a permissive open-source license. Biotechnol. Bioeng. 2014;111: 504-517. (c) 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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