Ji, Yanni and Cutiongco, Marie F.A. and Jensen, Bjørn Sand and Yuan, Ke (2025) Generating realistic single-cell images from CellProfiler representations. Medical Image Analysis. ISSN 1361-8415 (In Press)
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The proposed CellProfiler to image CP2Image model can directly generate realistic cell images from CellProfiler representations. The model is robust to different architectures and well preserves biological information during the generation process.AI Topics:
High-throughput imaging techniques acquire large amounts of images efficiently. These images contain rich biological information including cellular processes. A common method to analyze them is to encode them into quantitative representation vectors. Generally, there are two ways to extract cell biological information into representations, hand-crafted and machine-learning. Although representations obtained from machine learning models often demonstrate commendable reconstruction performance, they lack biological interpretability. In contrast, hand-crafted representations have clear biological meanings, making them easily interpretable. However, the capability of hand-crafted representations to generate realistic images remains uncertain. In this work, we propose a CellProfiler to image (CP2Image) model capable of directly generating realistic cell images from CellProfiler representations. The proposed model is demonstrated to be robust to different architectures, including ResNet, InceptionNet and Transformer. We also show that the biological information is well preserved during the generation process. The changes in certain CellProfiler features will reflect the corresponding changes in the generated single-cell images. In addition, the CP2Image model can generate conditional phenotypes, which will ultimately help diagnostics and drug screening.
Title | Generating realistic single-cell images from CellProfiler representations |
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Creators | Ji, Yanni and Cutiongco, Marie F.A. and Jensen, Bjørn Sand and Yuan, Ke |
Identification Number | 10.1016/j.media.2025.103574 |
Date | 10 April 2025 |
Divisions | College of Medical Veterinary and Life Sciences > School of Cancer Sciences College of Science and Engineering > School of Computing Science College of Science and Engineering > School of Engineering > Biomedical Engineering |
Publisher | Elsevier |
URI | https://pub.demo35.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/22 |
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Item Type | Article |
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Depositing User | Unnamed user with email ejo1f20@soton.ac.uk |
Date Deposited | 11 Jun 2025 16:34 |
Revision | 17 |
Last Modified | 12 Jun 2025 12:58 |
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