Hussain, A;
Ghosh, S;
Kalkhoran, SB;
Hausenloy, DJ;
Hanssen, E;
Rajagopal, V;
(2018)
An automated workflow for segmenting single adult cardiac cells from large-volume serial block-face scanning electron microscopy data.
Journal of Structural Biology
, 202
(3)
pp. 275-285.
10.1016/j.jsb.2018.02.005.
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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 physiology studies. We offer our large dataset and MATLAB implementation of the algorithm for research use at www.github.com/CellSMB/sbfsem-cardiac-cell-segmenter/. We anticipate that this timely tool will be of use to cardiac computational and experimental physiologists alike who study cardiac ultrastructure and its role in heart function.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | An automated workflow for segmenting single adult cardiac cells from large-volume serial block-face scanning electron microscopy data |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jsb.2018.02.005 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsb.2018.02.005 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Biophysics, Cell Biology, Cardiac ultrastructure, Serial-block-face imaging, Image segmentation, MITOCHONDRIAL RETICULUM, HEART-FAILURE, MUSCLE, ORGANIZATION, REVEALS |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Cardiovascular Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Cardiovascular Science > Pre-clinical and Fundamental Science |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10054731 |
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