Conference proceeding
Automated image-based phenotypic screening for high-throughput drug discovery
2009 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, pp.1-8
08/2009
DOI: 10.1109/CBMS.2009.5255338
Abstract
At the state-of-the-art in drug discovery, one of the key challenges is to develop high-throughput screening (HTS) techniques that can measure changes as a continuum of complex phenotypes induced in a target pathogen. Such measurements are crucial in developing therapeutics against diseases like schistosomiasis, trypanosomiasis, and leishmaniasis, which impact millions worldwide. These diseases are caused by parasites that can manifest a variety of phenotypes at any given point in time in response to drugs. Consequently, a single end-point measurement of 'live or death' (e.g., ED 50 value) commonly used for lead identification is over-simplistic. In our method to address this problem, the parasites are tracked during the entire course of (video) recorded observations and changes in their appearance-based and behavioral characteristics quantified using geometric, texture-based, color-based, and motion-based descriptors. Subsequently, within the on-line setting, machine learning techniques are used classify the exhibited phenotypes into well defined categories. Important advancements introduced as a consequence of the proposed approach include: (1) ability to assess the interactions between putative drugs and parasites in terms of multiple appearance and behavior-based phenotypes, (2) automatic classification and quantification of pathogen phenotypes. Experimental data from lead identification studies against the disease Schistosomiasis validate the proposed methodology.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Automated image-based phenotypic screening for high-throughput drug discovery
- Creators
- Rahul Singh - University of California, San FranciscoMichalis Pittas - San Francisco State UniversityIdo Heskia - San Francisco State UniversityFengyun Xu - University of California, San FranciscoJames McKerrow - University of California, San FranciscoConor R Caffrey
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Publication Details
- 2009 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, pp.1-8
- Publisher
- IEEE
- DOI
- 10.1109/CBMS.2009.5255338
- ISSN
- 1063-7125
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 08/2009
- Academic Unit
- Computer Science
- Record Identifier
- 9984446539402771
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