Cellular Actin Cytoskeleton Morphology Identification for Mechanical Characterization Using Deep Learning

Actin cytoskeleton morphology is able to affect and reflect the cellular mechanical properties. However, due to the lack of efficient approaches to quantifying actin cytoskeleton and mechanical properties, the study of mechanotransduction dynamics is still laborious. In this paper, a model to charac...

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Main Authors: Yi Liu, Juntao Zhang, Charuku Bharat, Juan Ren
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Language:English
Published: IEEE 2022-01-01
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9874811/
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Juntao Zhang
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description Actin cytoskeleton morphology is able to affect and reflect the cellular mechanical properties. However, due to the lack of efficient approaches to quantifying actin cytoskeleton and mechanical properties, the study of mechanotransduction dynamics is still laborious. In this paper, a model to characterize the cellular actin cytoskeleton morphology was built using the graph to vector embedding technique together with neural network in machine learning (ML). The proposed ML model consists of a skip-gram model followed by a fully connected classifier. The images of NIH/3T3 cells treated with Latrunculin B at different concentrations were taken as the inputs, and the outputs were the actin cytoskeleton morphology labels defined by treatment concentrations (i.e., the actin depolymerization level). The proposed model was also compared to a general convolutional neural network (CNN) and three commonly used transfer learning models (GoogleNet, Xception, and VGG16), the results demonstrated the capabilities of the proposed model in extracting actin cytoskeleton features, avoiding overfitting, and keeping the model generalization.
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spelling doaj.art-e283d465db06409c8eda14ab13e63fce2022-12-22T04:05:53ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362022-01-0110974089741810.1109/ACCESS.2022.32037209874811Cellular Actin Cytoskeleton Morphology Identification for Mechanical Characterization Using Deep LearningYi Liu0Juntao Zhang1Charuku Bharat2Juan Ren3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5616-7219Department of Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USADepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USADepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USADepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USAActin cytoskeleton morphology is able to affect and reflect the cellular mechanical properties. However, due to the lack of efficient approaches to quantifying actin cytoskeleton and mechanical properties, the study of mechanotransduction dynamics is still laborious. In this paper, a model to characterize the cellular actin cytoskeleton morphology was built using the graph to vector embedding technique together with neural network in machine learning (ML). The proposed ML model consists of a skip-gram model followed by a fully connected classifier. The images of NIH/3T3 cells treated with Latrunculin B at different concentrations were taken as the inputs, and the outputs were the actin cytoskeleton morphology labels defined by treatment concentrations (i.e., the actin depolymerization level). The proposed model was also compared to a general convolutional neural network (CNN) and three commonly used transfer learning models (GoogleNet, Xception, and VGG16), the results demonstrated the capabilities of the proposed model in extracting actin cytoskeleton features, avoiding overfitting, and keeping the model generalization.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9874811/Actin cytoskeletonclassificationgraph to vector embeddingmachine learningskip-gram model
spellingShingle Yi Liu
Juntao Zhang
Charuku Bharat
Juan Ren
Cellular Actin Cytoskeleton Morphology Identification for Mechanical Characterization Using Deep Learning
IEEE Access
Actin cytoskeleton
classification
graph to vector embedding
machine learning
skip-gram model
title Cellular Actin Cytoskeleton Morphology Identification for Mechanical Characterization Using Deep Learning
title_full Cellular Actin Cytoskeleton Morphology Identification for Mechanical Characterization Using Deep Learning
title_fullStr Cellular Actin Cytoskeleton Morphology Identification for Mechanical Characterization Using Deep Learning
title_full_unstemmed Cellular Actin Cytoskeleton Morphology Identification for Mechanical Characterization Using Deep Learning
title_short Cellular Actin Cytoskeleton Morphology Identification for Mechanical Characterization Using Deep Learning
title_sort cellular actin cytoskeleton morphology identification for mechanical characterization using deep learning
topic Actin cytoskeleton
classification
graph to vector embedding
machine learning
skip-gram model
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9874811/
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