A robust unsupervised machine-learning method to quantify the morphological heterogeneity of cells and nuclei

JM Phillip, KS Han, WC Chen, D Wirtz, PH Wu - Nature protocols, 2021 - nature.com
Cell morphology encodes essential information on many underlying biological processes. It
is commonly used by clinicians and researchers in the study, diagnosis, prognosis, and …

Cell form and function: interpreting and controlling the shape of adherent cells

A Prasad, E Alizadeh - Trends in biotechnology, 2019 - cell.com
Beautiful images of animal cells cultured on surfaces are ubiquitous in biological research,
but these shapes also carry valuable information about the cells and the organism that they …

[HTML][HTML] High-content analysis shows synergistic effects of low perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOS) and perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOA) mixture concentrations on …

P Pierozan, M Kosnik, O Karlsson - Environment International, 2023 - Elsevier
Perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have been associated with cancer, but the potential
underlying mechanisms need to be further elucidated and include studies of PFAS mixtures …

Single-cell morphology encodes metastatic potential

PH Wu, DM Gilkes, JM Phillip, A Narkar… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
A central goal of precision medicine is to predict disease outcomes and design treatments
based on multidimensional information from afflicted cells and tissues. Cell morphology is …

TOP-GAN: Stain-free cancer cell classification using deep learning with a small training set

M Rubin, O Stein, NA Turko, Y Nygate, D Roitshtain… - Medical image …, 2019 - Elsevier
We propose a new deep learning approach for medical imaging that copes with the problem
of a small training set, the main bottleneck of deep learning, and apply it for classification of …

Cell fitness screens reveal a conflict between LINE-1 retrotransposition and DNA replication

D Ardeljan, JP Steranka, C Liu, Z Li… - Nature structural & …, 2020 - nature.com
LINE-1 retrotransposon overexpression is a hallmark of human cancers. We identified a
colorectal cancer wherein a fast-growing tumor subclone downregulated LINE-1, prompting …

Quantitative phase microscopy spatial signatures of cancer cells

D Roitshtain, L Wolbromsky, E Bal… - Cytometry Part …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
We present cytometric classification of live healthy and cancerous cells by using the spatial
morphological and textural information found in the label‐free quantitative phase images of …

Use of the p-values as a size-dependent function to address practical differences when analyzing large datasets

E Gómez-de-Mariscal, V Guerrero, A Sneider… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Biomedical research has come to rely on p-values as a deterministic measure for data-
driven decision-making. In the largely extended null hypothesis significance testing for …

Potassium channel-driven bioelectric signalling regulates metastasis in triple-negative breast cancer

SL Payne, P Ram, DH Srinivasan, TT Le, M Levin… - …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background There is a critical need to better understand the mechanisms that drive local cell
invasion and metastasis to develop new therapeutics targeting metastatic disease …

Cellular morphological features are predictive markers of cancer cell state

E Alizadeh, J Castle, A Quirk, CDL Taylor, W Xu… - Computers in biology …, 2020 - Elsevier
Even genetically identical cells have heterogeneous properties because of stochasticity in
gene or protein expression. Single cell techniques that assay heterogeneous properties …