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- Title
Application of a variational autoencoder for clustering and analyzing in situ articular cartilage cellular response to mechanical stimuli.
- Authors
Zheng, Jingyang; Teoh, Han Kheng; Delco, Michelle L.; Bonassar, Lawrence J.; Cohen, Itai
- Abstract
In various biological systems, analyzing how cell behaviors are coordinated over time would enable a deeper understanding of tissue-scale response to physiologic or superphysiologic stimuli. Such data is necessary for establishing both normal tissue function and the sequence of events after injury that lead to chronic disease. However, collecting and analyzing these large datasets presents a challenge—such systems are time-consuming to process, and the overwhelming scale of data makes it difficult to parse overall behaviors. This problem calls for an analysis technique that can quickly provide an overview of the groups present in the entire system and also produce meaningful categorization of cell behaviors. Here, we demonstrate the application of an unsupervised method—the Variational Autoencoder (VAE)—to learn the features of cells in cartilage tissue after impact-induced injury and identify meaningful clusters of chondrocyte behavior. This technique quickly generated new insights into the spatial distribution of specific cell behavior phenotypes and connected specific peracute calcium signaling timeseries with long term cellular outcomes, demonstrating the value of the VAE technique.
- Subjects
ARTICULAR cartilage; BIOLOGICAL systems; CARTILAGE cells; ENDOCHONDRAL ossification; CARTILAGE; CHRONIC diseases; PHENOTYPES
- Publication
PLoS ONE, 2024, Vol 19, Issue 5, p1
- ISSN
1932-6203
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0297947