2022/09/13 by Sen Yang, Yang, Sen, Tao Shen +13 · 1 citation
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Engineering · #Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques #Cell Image Analysis Techniques #FOS: Electrical engineering #Image Processing Techniques and Applications #Image and Video Processing (eess.IV) #electronic engineering #information engineering
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2209.05772
openalex publication_date 2022/09/13 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The high-content image-based assay is commonly leveraged for identifying the phenotypic impact of genetic perturbations in biology field. However, a persistent issue remains unsolved during experiments: the interferential technical noise caused by systematic errors (e.g., temperature, reagent concentration, and well location) is always mixed up with the real biological signals, leading to misinterpretation of any conclusion drawn. Here, we show a mean teacher based deep learning model (DeepNoise) that can disentangle biological signals from the experimental noise. Specifically, we aim to classify the phenotypic impact of 1,108 different genetic perturbations screened from 125,510 fluorescent microscopy images, which are totally unrecognizable by human eye. We validate our model by participating in the Recursion Cellular Image Classification Challenge, and our proposed method achieves an extremely high classification score (Acc: 99.596%), ranking the 2nd place among 866 participating groups. This promising result indicates the successful separation of biological and technical factors, which might help decrease the cost of treatment development and expedite the drug discovery process.