Affiliation:
1. Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology of Behavior – caesar Bonn Germany
2. Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology Marburg Germany
3. Department of Physics Philipps‐Universität Marburg Marburg Germany
4. Biozentrum, University of Basel Basel Switzerland
5. Department of Biological Sciences Dartmouth College Hanover USA
Abstract
AbstractBacteria often grow into matrix‐encased three‐dimensional (3D) biofilm communities, which can be imaged at cellular resolution using confocal microscopy. From these 3D images, measurements of single‐cell properties with high spatiotemporal resolution are required to investigate cellular heterogeneity and dynamical processes inside biofilms. However, the required measurements rely on the automated segmentation of bacterial cells in 3D images, which is a technical challenge. To improve the accuracy of single‐cell segmentation in 3D biofilms, we first evaluated recent classical and deep learning segmentation algorithms. We then extended StarDist, a state‐of‐the‐art deep learning algorithm, by optimizing the post‐processing for bacteria, which resulted in the most accurate segmentation results for biofilms among all investigated algorithms. To generate the large 3D training dataset required for deep learning, we developed an iterative process of automated segmentation followed by semi‐manual correction, resulting in >18,000 annotated Vibrio cholerae cells in 3D images. We demonstrate that this large training dataset and the neural network with optimized post‐processing yield accurate segmentation results for biofilms of different species and on biofilm images from different microscopes. Finally, we used the accurate single‐cell segmentation results to track cell lineages in biofilms and to perform spatiotemporal measurements of single‐cell growth rates during biofilm development.
Funder
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
European Commission
Human Frontier Science Program
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
Subject
Molecular Biology,Microbiology
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12 articles.
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