Application of an artificial intelligence for quantitative analysis of endothelial capillary beds in vitro.

Magnusson, Marine M M; Schüpbach-Regula, Gertraud; Rieger, Juliane; Plendl, Johanna; Marin, Ilka; Drews, Barbara; Kaessmeyer, Sabine (2024). Application of an artificial intelligence for quantitative analysis of endothelial capillary beds in vitro. Clinical hemorheology and microcirculation, 88(1), pp. 43-58. IOS Press 10.3233/CH-242157

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OBJECTIVE

BACKGROUND: The use of endothelial cell cultures has become fundamental to study angiogenesis. Recent advances in artificial intelligences (AI) offer opportunities to develop automated assessment methods in medical research, analyzing larger datasets.

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OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to compare the application of AI with a manual method to morphometrically quantify in vitro angiogenesis.

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METHODS: Co-cultures of human microvascular endothelial cells and fibroblasts were incubated mimicking endothelial capillary-beds. An AI-software was trained for segmentation of endothelial capillaries on anti-CD31-labeled light microscope crops. Number of capillaries and branches and average capillary diameter were measured by the AI and manually on 115 crops.

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RESULTS: The crops were analyzed faster by the AI than manually (3 minutes vs 1 hour per crop). Using the AI, systematically more capillaries (mean 48/mm2 vs 27/mm2) and branches (mean 23/mm2 vs 11/mm2) were counted than manually. Both methods had a strong linear relationship in counting capillaries and branches (r-capillaries = 0.88, r-branches = 0.89). No correlation was found for measurements of the diameter (r-diameter = 0.15).

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CONCLUSIONS: The present AI reduces the time required for quantitative analysis of angiogenesis on large datasets, and correlates well with manual analysis.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

05 Veterinary Medicine > Department of Clinical Research and Veterinary Public Health (DCR-VPH) > Veterinary Anatomy
05 Veterinary Medicine > Department of Clinical Research and Veterinary Public Health (DCR-VPH) > Veterinary Public Health Institute
05 Veterinary Medicine > Department of Clinical Research and Veterinary Public Health (DCR-VPH)

UniBE Contributor:

Magnusson, Marine Morgane Marie, Schüpbach-Regula, Gertraud Irene, Drews, Barbara, Kässmeyer, Sabine

Subjects:

500 Science > 570 Life sciences; biology
600 Technology > 630 Agriculture

ISSN:

1386-0291

Publisher:

IOS Press

Language:

English

Submitter:

Pubmed Import

Date Deposited:

23 Apr 2024 10:23

Last Modified:

07 Sep 2024 00:12

Publisher DOI:

10.3233/CH-242157

PubMed ID:

38640146

Uncontrolled Keywords:

Artificial intelligence HMVEC angiogenesis endothelial cells machine learning

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/196124

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