Learning representations for image-based profiling of perturbations
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Measuring the phenotypic effect of treatments on cells through imaging assays is an efficient and powerful way of studying cell biology, and requires computational methods for transforming images into quantitative data. Here, we present an improved strategy for learning representations of treatment effects from high-throughput imaging, following a causal interpretation. We use weakly supervised learning for modeling associations between images and treatments, and show that it encodes both confounding factors and phenotypic features in the learned representation. To facilitate their separation, we constructed a large training dataset with images from five different studies to maximize experimental diversity, following insights from our causal analysis. Training a model with this dataset successfully improves downstream performance, and produces a reusable convolutional network for image-based profiling, which we call Cell Painting CNN. We evaluated our strategy on three publicly available Cell Painting datasets, and observed that the Cell Painting CNN improves performance in downstream analysis up to 30% with respect to classical features, while also being more computationally efficient.
Date:
4 June 2024, 15:00 (Tuesday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Venue:
https://zoom.us/j/91092603798?pwd=NUxQVGZ0SzY4OUR1TzRDOW9SdGQ2dz09
Speaker:
Dr Juan C. Caicedo (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Organising department:
Department of Psychiatry
Organiser:
Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
andrey.kormilitzin@psych.ox.ac.uk
Host:
Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)
Part of:
Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health Seminar Series
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Not required
Booking url:
https://web.maillist.ox.ac.uk/ox/info/ai4mch
Booking email:
andrey.kormilitzin@psych.ox.ac.uk
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Andrey Kormilitzin
