基于神经网络的植入材料上共定位微生物与人体细胞的图像分析
Neural network-based image analysis of co-localized microorganisms and human cells on implant materials.
作者信息
Debener Nicolas, Rosner Anna, Menke Jannik, Mikolai Carina, Stiesch Meike, Doll-Nikutta Katharina, Bahnemann Janina
机构信息
Institute of Technical Chemistry, Leibniz University Hannover, Hannover, Germany.
Department of Prosthetic Dentistry and Biomedical Materials Science, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
出版信息
Sci Rep. 2025 Jun 20;15(1):20163. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-05484-1.
Dental implant-associated infections increase the risk of implant failure, presenting significant challenges in modern dentistry. The host-microbe interaction plays a crucial role in the development of implant-associated infections. To gain a deeper understanding of the underlying mechanisms, numerous studies have been conducted using in vitro co-culture models of bacteria and human cells or in situ samples. Due to the complexity of the images generated throughout these studies, however, the analysis by means of classical image processing techniques is challenging. This study proposes a workflow-based on two custom Cellpose models-that, for the first time, allows the analysis of microbial surface coverage in microscopy images of fluorescent-stained and co-localized microorganisms and human cells with substantial background signals. The first Cellpose model demonstrated its efficacy in the analysis of individual bacteria within images derived from an 3D implant-tissue-oral biofilm in vitro co-culture model. In combination with the second custom model, which was trained to recognize microcolonies, images obtained from an in situ study could also be automatically segmented. The model's segmentation accuracy could be further enhanced by acquiring additional training images and improving image quality, making the proposed workflow now valuable for a range of dental implant-related and other co-culture images.
牙种植体相关感染会增加种植体失败的风险,给现代牙科带来重大挑战。宿主与微生物的相互作用在种植体相关感染的发生发展中起着关键作用。为了更深入地了解其潜在机制,人们利用细菌与人类细胞的体外共培养模型或原位样本进行了大量研究。然而,由于这些研究中生成的图像很复杂,使用传统图像处理技术进行分析具有挑战性。本研究提出了一种基于两个定制Cellpose模型的工作流程,该流程首次能够分析荧光染色且共定位的微生物和人类细胞的显微镜图像中的微生物表面覆盖率,这些图像具有大量背景信号。第一个Cellpose模型在分析源自3D种植体-组织-口腔生物膜体外共培养模型的图像中的单个细菌时显示出了有效性。结合经过训练以识别微菌落的第二个定制模型,从原位研究获得的图像也可以自动分割。通过获取额外的训练图像和提高图像质量,可以进一步提高模型的分割精度,这使得所提出的工作流程对于一系列与牙种植体相关的图像和其他共培养图像都具有价值。