Morphology-based prediction of osteogenic differentiation potential of human mesenchymal stem cells.

Human bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (hBMSCs) are widely used cell source for clinical bone regeneration. Achieving the greatest therapeutic effect is dependent on the osteogenic differentiation potential of the stem cells to be implanted. However, there are still no practical methods to charact...

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Main Authors: Fumiko Matsuoka, Ichiro Takeuchi, Hideki Agata, Hideaki Kagami, Hirofumi Shiono, Yasujiro Kiyota, Hiroyuki Honda, Ryuji Kato
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Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
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Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3578868?pdf=render
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author Fumiko Matsuoka
Ichiro Takeuchi
Hideki Agata
Hideaki Kagami
Hirofumi Shiono
Yasujiro Kiyota
Hiroyuki Honda
Ryuji Kato
author_facet Fumiko Matsuoka
Ichiro Takeuchi
Hideki Agata
Hideaki Kagami
Hirofumi Shiono
Yasujiro Kiyota
Hiroyuki Honda
Ryuji Kato
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description Human bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (hBMSCs) are widely used cell source for clinical bone regeneration. Achieving the greatest therapeutic effect is dependent on the osteogenic differentiation potential of the stem cells to be implanted. However, there are still no practical methods to characterize such potential non-invasively or previously. Monitoring cellular morphology is a practical and non-invasive approach for evaluating osteogenic potential. Unfortunately, such image-based approaches had been historically qualitative and requiring experienced interpretation. By combining the non-invasive attributes of microscopy with the latest technology allowing higher throughput and quantitative imaging metrics, we studied the applicability of morphometric features to quantitatively predict cellular osteogenic potential. We applied computational machine learning, combining cell morphology features with their corresponding biochemical osteogenic assay results, to develop prediction model of osteogenic differentiation. Using a dataset of 9,990 images automatically acquired by BioStation CT during osteogenic differentiation culture of hBMSCs, 666 morphometric features were extracted as parameters. Two commonly used osteogenic markers, alkaline phosphatase (ALP) activity and calcium deposition were measured experimentally, and used as the true biological differentiation status to validate the prediction accuracy. Using time-course morphological features throughout differentiation culture, the prediction results highly correlated with the experimentally defined differentiation marker values (R>0.89 for both marker predictions). The clinical applicability of our morphology-based prediction was further examined with two scenarios: one using only historical cell images and the other using both historical images together with the patient's own cell images to predict a new patient's cellular potential. The prediction accuracy was found to be greatly enhanced by incorporation of patients' own cell features in the modeling, indicating the practical strategy for clinical usage. Consequently, our results provide strong evidence for the feasibility of using a quantitative time series of phase-contrast cellular morphology for non-invasive cell quality prediction in regenerative medicine.
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spelling doaj.art-debde22a24c44fd5894fe617b9c9cb5d2022-12-21T18:29:52ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032013-01-0182e5508210.1371/journal.pone.0055082Morphology-based prediction of osteogenic differentiation potential of human mesenchymal stem cells.Fumiko MatsuokaIchiro TakeuchiHideki AgataHideaki KagamiHirofumi ShionoYasujiro KiyotaHiroyuki HondaRyuji KatoHuman bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (hBMSCs) are widely used cell source for clinical bone regeneration. Achieving the greatest therapeutic effect is dependent on the osteogenic differentiation potential of the stem cells to be implanted. However, there are still no practical methods to characterize such potential non-invasively or previously. Monitoring cellular morphology is a practical and non-invasive approach for evaluating osteogenic potential. Unfortunately, such image-based approaches had been historically qualitative and requiring experienced interpretation. By combining the non-invasive attributes of microscopy with the latest technology allowing higher throughput and quantitative imaging metrics, we studied the applicability of morphometric features to quantitatively predict cellular osteogenic potential. We applied computational machine learning, combining cell morphology features with their corresponding biochemical osteogenic assay results, to develop prediction model of osteogenic differentiation. Using a dataset of 9,990 images automatically acquired by BioStation CT during osteogenic differentiation culture of hBMSCs, 666 morphometric features were extracted as parameters. Two commonly used osteogenic markers, alkaline phosphatase (ALP) activity and calcium deposition were measured experimentally, and used as the true biological differentiation status to validate the prediction accuracy. Using time-course morphological features throughout differentiation culture, the prediction results highly correlated with the experimentally defined differentiation marker values (R>0.89 for both marker predictions). The clinical applicability of our morphology-based prediction was further examined with two scenarios: one using only historical cell images and the other using both historical images together with the patient's own cell images to predict a new patient's cellular potential. The prediction accuracy was found to be greatly enhanced by incorporation of patients' own cell features in the modeling, indicating the practical strategy for clinical usage. Consequently, our results provide strong evidence for the feasibility of using a quantitative time series of phase-contrast cellular morphology for non-invasive cell quality prediction in regenerative medicine.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3578868?pdf=render
spellingShingle Fumiko Matsuoka
Ichiro Takeuchi
Hideki Agata
Hideaki Kagami
Hirofumi Shiono
Yasujiro Kiyota
Hiroyuki Honda
Ryuji Kato
Morphology-based prediction of osteogenic differentiation potential of human mesenchymal stem cells.
PLoS ONE
title Morphology-based prediction of osteogenic differentiation potential of human mesenchymal stem cells.
title_full Morphology-based prediction of osteogenic differentiation potential of human mesenchymal stem cells.
title_fullStr Morphology-based prediction of osteogenic differentiation potential of human mesenchymal stem cells.
title_full_unstemmed Morphology-based prediction of osteogenic differentiation potential of human mesenchymal stem cells.
title_short Morphology-based prediction of osteogenic differentiation potential of human mesenchymal stem cells.
title_sort morphology based prediction of osteogenic differentiation potential of human mesenchymal stem cells
url http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3578868?pdf=render
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