An open imaging and AI resource enabling unbiased quantification of extrachromosomal DNA at scale
Behnamie, P.; Summers, R.; Chen, J.; Mehta, A.; Igbinigie, A.; Liu, Q.; Murray, M.; Guilbaud, D.; Niethammer, M.; Brunk, E. C.
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Quantitative imaging of extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) is increasingly important for studying cancer heterogeneity and adaptation, yet automated analysis has been limited by the absence of accessible imaging data, gold standard annotations and adaptable computational tools. Here we establish an open resource for computational ecDNA imaging, integrating 2,986 native-resolution metaphase FISH image sets with manual annotations, standardized benchmarks and open-source quantification frameworks. We use this resource to systematically compare existing and newly developed approaches spanning rule-based computer vision, deep-learning-based segmentation and probabilistic localization. This comparison reveals count-dependent underestimation that distorts ecDNA copy-number distributions and motivates ecCount, a probabilistic localization method developed here to preserve individual ecDNA signals and quantitative burden. ecCount achieves an object-level F1 score of 0.939 on held-out images with minimal count bias. Together, the images, annotations, retrainable models, evaluation tools and guided workflows provide community infrastructure for applying, adapting and improving automated ecDNA quantification across experimental systems.
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