Predicting gene expression from cell morphology in human induced pluripotent stem cells
Wakui, T.; Negishi, M.; Murakami, Y.; Tominaga, S.; Shiraishi, Y.; Carpenter, A. E.; Singh, S.; Segawa, H.
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Purification is essential before differentiating human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) into cells that fully express particular differentiation marker genes. High-quality iPSC clones are typically purified through gene expression profiling or visual inspection of the cell morphology; however, the relationship between the two methods remains unclear. We investigated the relationship between gene expression levels and morphology by analyzing live-cell phase-contrast images and mRNA profiles collected during the purification process. We employed this data and an unsupervised image feature extraction method to build a model that predicts gene expression levels from morphology. As a benchmark, we confirmed that the method can predict the gene expression levels from tissue images for cancer genes, performing as well as state-of-the-art methods. We then applied the method to iPSCs and identified two genes that are well-predicted from cell morphology. Although strong batch effects resulting from the reprogramming process preclude the ability to use the same model to predict across batches, prediction within a reprogramming batch is sufficiently robust to provide a practical approach for estimating expression levels of a few genes and monitoring the purification process.
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