Detecting abnormal cell division patterns in early stage human embryo development

Aisha Khan*, Stephen Gould, Mathieu Salzmann

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    Abstract

    Recently, it has been shown that early division patterns, such as cell division timing biomarkers, are crucial to predict human embryo viability. Precise and accurate measurement of these markers requires cell lineage analysis to identify normal and abnormal division patterns. However, current approaches to early-stage embryo analysis only focus on estimating the number of cells and their locations, thus failing to detect abnormal division patterns and potentially yielding incorrect timing biomarkers. In this work we propose an automated tool that can perform lineage tree analysis up to the 5-cell stage, which is sufficient to accurately compute all the known important biomarkers. To this end, we introduce a CRF-based cell localization framework. We demonstrate the benefits of our approach on a data set of 22 human embryos, resulting in correct identification of all abnormal division patterns in the data set.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationMachine Learning in Medical Imaging - 6th International Workshop, MLMI 2015 Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2015, Proceedings
    EditorsLuping Zhou, Yinghuan Shi, Li Wang, Qian Wang
    PublisherSpringer Verlag
    Pages161-169
    Number of pages9
    ISBN (Print)9783319248875
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2015
    Event6th International Workshop on Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, MLMI 2015 and Held in Conjunction with 18th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2015 - Munich, Germany
    Duration: 5 Oct 20155 Oct 2015

    Publication series

    NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
    Volume9352
    ISSN (Print)0302-9743
    ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

    Conference

    Conference6th International Workshop on Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, MLMI 2015 and Held in Conjunction with 18th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2015
    Country/TerritoryGermany
    CityMunich
    Period5/10/155/10/15

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