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Computational Model-Based Estimation of Mouse Eyeball Structure From Two-Dimensional Flatmount Microscopy Images
PURPOSE: Retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells serve as a supporter for the metabolism and visual function of photoreceptors and a barrier for photoreceptor protection. Morphology dynamics, spatial organization, distribution density, and growth patterns of RPE cells are important for further resear...
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The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8088229/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34004004 http://dx.doi.org/10.1167/tvst.10.4.25 |
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author | Li, Hongxiao Yu, Hanyi Kim, Yong-Kyu Wang, Fusheng Teodoro, George Jiang, Yi Nickerson, John M. Kong, Jun |
author_facet | Li, Hongxiao Yu, Hanyi Kim, Yong-Kyu Wang, Fusheng Teodoro, George Jiang, Yi Nickerson, John M. Kong, Jun |
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description | PURPOSE: Retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells serve as a supporter for the metabolism and visual function of photoreceptors and a barrier for photoreceptor protection. Morphology dynamics, spatial organization, distribution density, and growth patterns of RPE cells are important for further research on these RPE main functions. To enable such investigations within the authentic eyeball structure, a new method for estimating the three-dimensional (3D) eyeball sphere from two-dimensional tissue flatmount microscopy images was investigated. METHODS: An error-correction term was formulated to compensate for the reconstruction error as a result of tissue distortions. The effect of the tissue-distortion error was evaluated by excluding partial data points from the low- and high-latitude zones. The error-correction parameter was learned automatically using a set of samples with the ground truth eyeball diameters measured with noncontact light-emitting diode micrometry at submicron accuracy and precision. RESULTS: The analysis showed that the error-correction term in the reconstruction model is a valid method for modeling tissue distortions in the tissue flatmount preparation steps. With the error-correction model, the average relative error of the estimated eyeball diameter was reduced from 14% to 5%, and the absolute error was reduced from 0.22 to 0.03 mm. CONCLUSIONS: A new method for enabling RPE morphometry analysis with respect to locations on an eyeball sphere was created, an important step in increasing RPE research and eye disease diagnosis. TRANSLATIONAL RELEVANCE: This method enables one to derive RPE cell information from the 3D eyeball surface and helps characterize eyeball volume growth patterns under diseased conditions. |
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spelling | pubmed-80882292021-05-05 Computational Model-Based Estimation of Mouse Eyeball Structure From Two-Dimensional Flatmount Microscopy Images Li, Hongxiao Yu, Hanyi Kim, Yong-Kyu Wang, Fusheng Teodoro, George Jiang, Yi Nickerson, John M. Kong, Jun Transl Vis Sci Technol Article PURPOSE: Retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells serve as a supporter for the metabolism and visual function of photoreceptors and a barrier for photoreceptor protection. Morphology dynamics, spatial organization, distribution density, and growth patterns of RPE cells are important for further research on these RPE main functions. To enable such investigations within the authentic eyeball structure, a new method for estimating the three-dimensional (3D) eyeball sphere from two-dimensional tissue flatmount microscopy images was investigated. METHODS: An error-correction term was formulated to compensate for the reconstruction error as a result of tissue distortions. The effect of the tissue-distortion error was evaluated by excluding partial data points from the low- and high-latitude zones. The error-correction parameter was learned automatically using a set of samples with the ground truth eyeball diameters measured with noncontact light-emitting diode micrometry at submicron accuracy and precision. RESULTS: The analysis showed that the error-correction term in the reconstruction model is a valid method for modeling tissue distortions in the tissue flatmount preparation steps. With the error-correction model, the average relative error of the estimated eyeball diameter was reduced from 14% to 5%, and the absolute error was reduced from 0.22 to 0.03 mm. CONCLUSIONS: A new method for enabling RPE morphometry analysis with respect to locations on an eyeball sphere was created, an important step in increasing RPE research and eye disease diagnosis. TRANSLATIONAL RELEVANCE: This method enables one to derive RPE cell information from the 3D eyeball surface and helps characterize eyeball volume growth patterns under diseased conditions. The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology 2021-04-23 /pmc/articles/PMC8088229/ /pubmed/34004004 http://dx.doi.org/10.1167/tvst.10.4.25 Text en Copyright 2021 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. |
spellingShingle | Article Li, Hongxiao Yu, Hanyi Kim, Yong-Kyu Wang, Fusheng Teodoro, George Jiang, Yi Nickerson, John M. Kong, Jun Computational Model-Based Estimation of Mouse Eyeball Structure From Two-Dimensional Flatmount Microscopy Images |
title | Computational Model-Based Estimation of Mouse Eyeball Structure From Two-Dimensional Flatmount Microscopy Images |
title_full | Computational Model-Based Estimation of Mouse Eyeball Structure From Two-Dimensional Flatmount Microscopy Images |
title_fullStr | Computational Model-Based Estimation of Mouse Eyeball Structure From Two-Dimensional Flatmount Microscopy Images |
title_full_unstemmed | Computational Model-Based Estimation of Mouse Eyeball Structure From Two-Dimensional Flatmount Microscopy Images |
title_short | Computational Model-Based Estimation of Mouse Eyeball Structure From Two-Dimensional Flatmount Microscopy Images |
title_sort | computational model-based estimation of mouse eyeball structure from two-dimensional flatmount microscopy images |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8088229/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34004004 http://dx.doi.org/10.1167/tvst.10.4.25 |
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