Contrastive Learning of Single-Cell Phenotypic Representations for Treatment Classification

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2103.16670v1
• Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2021 20:29:04 GMT
• Title: Contrastive Learning of Single-Cell Phenotypic Representations for Treatment Classification
• Authors: Alexis Perakis, Ali Gorji, Samriddhi Jain, Krishna Chaitanya, Simone Rizza, Ender Konukoglu
• Abstract summary: Drug development efforts typically analyse thousands of cell images to screen for potential treatments. We leverage a contrastive learning framework to learn appropriate representations from single-cell fluorescent microscopy images. We observe an improvement of 10% in NCSB accuracy and 11% in NSC-NSCB drop over the previously best unsupervised method.
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• Abstract: Learning robust representations to discriminate cell phenotypes based on microscopy images is important for drug discovery. Drug development efforts typically analyse thousands of cell images to screen for potential treatments. Early works focus on creating hand-engineered features from these images or learn such features with deep neural networks in a fully or weakly-supervised framework. Both require prior knowledge or labelled datasets. Therefore, subsequent works propose unsupervised approaches based on generative models to learn these representations. Recently, representations learned with self-supervised contrastive loss-based methods have yielded state-of-the-art results on various imaging tasks compared to earlier unsupervised approaches. In this work, we leverage a contrastive learning framework to learn appropriate representations from single-cell fluorescent microscopy images for the task of Mechanism-of-Action classification. The proposed work is evaluated on the annotated BBBC021 dataset, and we obtain state-of-the-art results in NSC, NCSB and drop metrics for an unsupervised approach. We observe an improvement of 10% in NCSB accuracy and 11% in NSC-NSCB drop over the previously best unsupervised method. Moreover, the performance of our unsupervised approach ties with the best supervised approach. Additionally, we observe that our framework performs well even without post-processing, unlike earlier methods. With this, we conclude that one can learn robust cell representations with contrastive learning.

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