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Using Artificial Intelligence to Detect, Classify, and Objectively Score Severity of Rodent Cardiomyopathy.


ABSTRACT: Rodent progressive cardiomyopathy (PCM) encompasses a constellation of microscopic findings commonly seen as a spontaneous background change in rat and mouse hearts. Primary histologic features of PCM include varying degrees of cardiomyocyte degeneration/necrosis, mononuclear cell infiltration, and fibrosis. Mineralization can also occur. Cardiotoxicity may increase the incidence and severity of PCM, and toxicity-related morphologic changes can overlap with those of PCM. Consequently, sensitive and consistent detection and quantification of PCM features are needed to help differentiate spontaneous from test article-related findings. To address this, we developed a computer-assisted image analysis algorithm, facilitated by a fully convolutional network deep learning technique, to detect and quantify the microscopic features of PCM (degeneration/necrosis, fibrosis, mononuclear cell infiltration, mineralization) in rat heart histologic sections. The trained algorithm achieved high values for accuracy, intersection over union, and dice coefficient for each feature. Further, there was a strong positive correlation between the percentage area of the heart predicted to have PCM lesions by the algorithm and the median severity grade assigned by a panel of veterinary toxicologic pathologists following light microscopic evaluation. By providing objective and sensitive quantification of the microscopic features of PCM, deep learning algorithms could assist pathologists in discerning cardiotoxicity-associated changes.

SUBMITTER: Tokarz DA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8262119 | biostudies-literature |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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