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DeepPaint: A deep-learning package for Cell Painting Image Classification

Luna, D.; Johnson, E.; Dunphy, L.; McQuillen, R. J.

2024-10-13 bioinformatics
10.1101/2024.10.08.617198 bioRxiv
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Recent developments in the high-content imaging (HCI) space have allowed for the production of large Cell Painting datasets. These datasets are typically derived from cells exposed to a set of biological perturbants including proteins, small molecules, or even pathogens. While the method of Cell Painting has shown utility for drug discovery and hazard evaluation purposes, traditional analyses pipelines applied Cell Painting datasets typically require the segmentation of single cells from thousands to millions of images, a process that is time-consuming and subject to noise and experimental variability. Here we present DeepPaint, a Python package that uses a deep learning framework to perform image analysis of cell painting images including treatment classification and latent space analysis, circumventing the need for image segmentation. DeepPaint is easily tunable to different HCI setups and datasets and can be applied to classify broad types of biological perturbations. Here we demonstrate that DeepPaint can generate highly accurate neural networks for binary and multiclass classification of cell painting images. The DeepPaint package and example notebooks are freely available at https://github.com/jhuapl-bio/DeepPaint.

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