Automated quantification of avian influenza virus antigen in different organs.


Journal

Scientific reports
ISSN: 2045-2322
Titre abrégé: Sci Rep
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101563288

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
16 Apr 2024
Historique:
received: 10 08 2023
accepted: 08 04 2024
medline: 17 4 2024
pubmed: 17 4 2024
entrez: 16 4 2024
Statut: epublish

Résumé

As immunohistochemistry is valuable for determining tissue and cell tropism of avian influenza viruses (AIV), but time-consuming, an artificial intelligence-based workflow was developed to automate the AIV antigen quantification. Organ samples from experimental AIV infections including brain, heart, lung and spleen on one slide, and liver and kidney on another slide were stained for influenza A-matrixprotein and analyzed with QuPath: Random trees algorithms were trained to identify the organs on each slide, followed by threshold-based quantification of the immunoreactive area. The algorithms were trained and tested on two different slide sets, then retrained on both and validated on a third set. Except for the kidney, the best algorithms for organ selection correctly identified the largest proportion of the organ area. For most organs, the immunoreactive area assessed following organ selection was significantly and positively correlated to a manually assessed semiquantitative score. In the validation set, intravenously infected chickens showed a generally higher percentage of immunoreactive area than chickens infected oculonasally. Variability between the slide sets and a similar tissue texture of some organs limited the ability of the algorithms to select certain organs. Generally, suitable correlations of the immunoreactivity data results were achieved, facilitating high-throughput analysis of AIV tissue tropism.

Identifiants

pubmed: 38627481
doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-59239-5
pii: 10.1038/s41598-024-59239-5
doi:

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Journal Article

Langues

eng

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IM

Pagination

8766

Subventions

Organisme : EC | Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion | European Social Fund (Fondo Social Europeo)
ID : 100380880

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© 2024. The Author(s).

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Auteurs

Maria Landmann (M)

Institute of Veterinary Pathology, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany.

David Scheibner (D)

Institute of Molecular Virology and Cell Biology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany.

Marcel Gischke (M)

Institute of Molecular Virology and Cell Biology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany.

Elsayed M Abdelwhab (EM)

Institute of Molecular Virology and Cell Biology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany.

Reiner Ulrich (R)

Institute of Veterinary Pathology, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany. reiner.ulrich@vetmed.uni-leipzig.de.

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