Cell Transformation Assays (CTA) rely on the detection of phenotypic changes, namely foci, induced by chemicals (e.g., xenobiotics or candidate drugs) in mammalian cells such as C3H10T1/2 mouse fibroblasts. A focus is a cell colony and as such is made visible by standardized techniques of light microscopy. Foci exhibit a variety of morphological features, by which three "Types" have been defined. Types II and III consist of cells having undergone neoplastic transformation. The assignment of a focus to a Type is based on the evaluation of phenotypic features by a trained human expert. An automated, two-stage morphological classifier of foci is described herewith. Morphological descriptors are extracted from light microscope images by the "spectrum enhancement" algorithm, which separates structure from texture. Said descriptors are submitted to a classifier, the first stage of which is trained to discriminate transformed cells from normal ones and the 2nd stage to discriminate Type III from Type II. The classifier operating in recognition mode (on images not used for training) is satisfactory in terms of confusion matrix entries. The whole procedure is aimed at removing subjectivity from the scoring and classification of foci and thus make CTA a more powerful tool in carcinogenesis studies

Crosta, G., Urani, C., Bussinelli, L. (2010). A two-stage morphological classifier of foci occurring in cell transformation assays. In D.L. Farkas, D.V. Nicolau, R.C. Leif (a cura di), Imaging, Manipulation, and Analysis of Biomolecules, Cells, and Tissues VII. Bellingham, WA : SPIE [10.1117/12.808837].

A two-stage morphological classifier of foci occurring in cell transformation assays

CROSTA, GIOVANNI FRANCO FILIPPO;URANI, CHIARA;
2010

Abstract

Cell Transformation Assays (CTA) rely on the detection of phenotypic changes, namely foci, induced by chemicals (e.g., xenobiotics or candidate drugs) in mammalian cells such as C3H10T1/2 mouse fibroblasts. A focus is a cell colony and as such is made visible by standardized techniques of light microscopy. Foci exhibit a variety of morphological features, by which three "Types" have been defined. Types II and III consist of cells having undergone neoplastic transformation. The assignment of a focus to a Type is based on the evaluation of phenotypic features by a trained human expert. An automated, two-stage morphological classifier of foci is described herewith. Morphological descriptors are extracted from light microscope images by the "spectrum enhancement" algorithm, which separates structure from texture. Said descriptors are submitted to a classifier, the first stage of which is trained to discriminate transformed cells from normal ones and the 2nd stage to discriminate Type III from Type II. The classifier operating in recognition mode (on images not used for training) is satisfactory in terms of confusion matrix entries. The whole procedure is aimed at removing subjectivity from the scoring and classification of foci and thus make CTA a more powerful tool in carcinogenesis studies
Capitolo o saggio
image classification; carcinogenicity tests
English
Imaging, Manipulation, and Analysis of Biomolecules, Cells, and Tissues VII
Farkas, DL; Nicolau, DV; Leif, RC
2010
978-0-8194-7428-5
7182
SPIE
71821M
Crosta, G., Urani, C., Bussinelli, L. (2010). A two-stage morphological classifier of foci occurring in cell transformation assays. In D.L. Farkas, D.V. Nicolau, R.C. Leif (a cura di), Imaging, Manipulation, and Analysis of Biomolecules, Cells, and Tissues VII. Bellingham, WA : SPIE [10.1117/12.808837].
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