Quantifying Smooth Muscles Regional Organization in the Rat Bladder Using Immunohistochemistry, Multiphoton Microscopy and Machine Learning
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| author | Asadbeygi, Alireza Tobe, Yasutaka Yoshimura, Naoki Stocker, Sean D. Watkins, Simon Watton, Paul Robertson, Anne M. |
| author_facet | Asadbeygi, Alireza Tobe, Yasutaka Yoshimura, Naoki Stocker, Sean D. Watkins, Simon Watton, Paul Robertson, Anne M. |
| contents | The smooth muscle bundles (SMBs) in the bladder act as contractile elements which enable the bladder to void effectively. In contrast to skeletal muscles, these bundles are not highly aligned, rather they are oriented more heterogeneously throughout the bladder wall. In this work, for the first time, this regional orientation of the SMBs is quantified across the whole bladder, without the need for optical clearing or cryosectioning. Immunohistochemistry staining was utilized to visualize smooth muscle cell actin in multiphoton microscopy (MPM) images of bladder smooth muscle bundles (SMBs). Feature vectors for each pixel were generated using a range of filters, including Gaussian blur, Gaussian gradient magnitude, Laplacian of Gaussian, Hessian eigenvalues, structure tensor eigenvalues, Gabor, and Sobel gradients. A Random Forest classifier was subsequently trained to automate the segmentation of SMBs in the MPM images. Finally, the orientation of SMBs in each bladder region was quantified using the CT-FIRE package. This information is essential for biomechanical models of the bladder that include contractile elements. |
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| spellingShingle | Quantifying Smooth Muscles Regional Organization in the Rat Bladder Using Immunohistochemistry, Multiphoton Microscopy and Machine Learning Asadbeygi, Alireza Tobe, Yasutaka Yoshimura, Naoki Stocker, Sean D. Watkins, Simon Watton, Paul Robertson, Anne M. Tissues and Organs Image and Video Processing The smooth muscle bundles (SMBs) in the bladder act as contractile elements which enable the bladder to void effectively. In contrast to skeletal muscles, these bundles are not highly aligned, rather they are oriented more heterogeneously throughout the bladder wall. In this work, for the first time, this regional orientation of the SMBs is quantified across the whole bladder, without the need for optical clearing or cryosectioning. Immunohistochemistry staining was utilized to visualize smooth muscle cell actin in multiphoton microscopy (MPM) images of bladder smooth muscle bundles (SMBs). Feature vectors for each pixel were generated using a range of filters, including Gaussian blur, Gaussian gradient magnitude, Laplacian of Gaussian, Hessian eigenvalues, structure tensor eigenvalues, Gabor, and Sobel gradients. A Random Forest classifier was subsequently trained to automate the segmentation of SMBs in the MPM images. Finally, the orientation of SMBs in each bladder region was quantified using the CT-FIRE package. This information is essential for biomechanical models of the bladder that include contractile elements. |
| title | Quantifying Smooth Muscles Regional Organization in the Rat Bladder Using Immunohistochemistry, Multiphoton Microscopy and Machine Learning |
| topic | Tissues and Organs Image and Video Processing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04790 |