Maximilian Hillemanns

The project addresses the generation and establishment of programmed pacemaker cells for an in vitro drug testing possibility to perform predictive tests. This may lead to an improved treatment of cardiac arrhythmias or an accurate identification of potential drug molecules at a very early stage of development. Important benefits will arise in verifying the safety of a wide variety of medicines while reducing animal testing. For more information you may visit our project website at ...

Here, we conduct a proof of principle by comparing a 2D and 3D fluorescent image analysis based approach on unlabeled cardiomyocytes. Based on the CellProfiler software, we extracted high-dimensional features of individual cells and nuclei, which are subsequently down-sampled and clustered. These clusters are furthermore benchmarked via different machine learning classifiers (e.g., AdaBoost, Gradient Boosting, Random Forest) as the ground truth for our proposed approach.

A CellProfiler pipeline for 3D analysis of cardiomyocytes