An automated workflow for segmenting single adult cardiac cells from large-volume serial block-face scanning electron microscopy data

Journal of Structural Biology
Akter HussainVijay Rajagopal

Abstract

This paper presents a new algorithm to automatically segment the myofibrils, mitochondria and nuclei within single adult cardiac cells that are part of a large serial-block-face scanning electron microscopy (SBF-SEM) dataset. The algorithm only requires a set of manually drawn contours that roughly demarcate the cell boundary at routine slice intervals (every 50th, for example). The algorithm correctly classified pixels within the single cell with 97% accuracy when compared to manual segmentations. One entire cell and the partial volumes of two cells were segmented. Analysis of segmentations within these cells showed that myofibrils and mitochondria occupied 47.5% and 51.6% on average respectively, while the nuclei occupy 0.7% of the cell for which the entire volume was captured in the SBF-SEM dataset. Mitochondria clustering increased at the periphery of the nucleus region and branching points of the cardiac cell. The segmentations also showed high area fraction of mitochondria (up to 70% of the 2D image slice) in the sub-sarcolemmal region, whilst it was closer to 50% in the intermyofibrillar space. We finally demonstrate that our segmentations can be turned into 3D finite element meshes for cardiac cell computational physiol...Continue Reading

Citations

Dec 21, 2019·BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making·Afshin KhadangiVijay Rajagopal
Jan 9, 2021·Bioinformatics·Afshin KhadangiVijay Rajagopal
Dec 7, 2021·Frontiers in Physiology·Francesco GiardiniLeonardo Sacconi

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