Deep Learning for Taxol Exposure Analysis: A New Cell Image Dataset and Attention-Based Baseline Model

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14349v1
• Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2025 01:41:26 GMT
• Title: Deep Learning for Taxol Exposure Analysis: A New Cell Image Dataset and Attention-Based Baseline Model
• Authors: Sean Fletcher, Gabby Scott, Douglas Currie, Xin Zhang, Yuqi Song, Bruce MacLeod,
• Abstract summary: Monitoring the effects of the chemotherapeutic agent Taxol at the cellular level is critical for both clinical evaluation and biomedical research.<n>Deep learning approaches have shown great promise in medical and biological image analysis.<n>No publicly available dataset currently exists for automated morphological analysis of cellular responses to Taxol exposure.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Monitoring the effects of the chemotherapeutic agent Taxol at the cellular level is critical for both clinical evaluation and biomedical research. However, existing detection methods require specialized equipment, skilled personnel, and extensive sample preparation, making them expensive, labor-intensive, and unsuitable for high-throughput or real-time analysis. Deep learning approaches have shown great promise in medical and biological image analysis, enabling automated, high-throughput assessment of cellular morphology. Yet, no publicly available dataset currently exists for automated morphological analysis of cellular responses to Taxol exposure. To address this gap, we introduce a new microscopy image dataset capturing C6 glioma cells treated with varying concentrations of Taxol. To provide an effective solution for Taxol concentration classification and establish a benchmark for future studies on this dataset, we propose a baseline model named ResAttention-KNN, which combines a ResNet-50 with Convolutional Block Attention Modules and uses a k-Nearest Neighbors classifier in the learned embedding space. This model integrates attention-based refinement and non-parametric classification to enhance robustness and interpretability. Both the dataset and implementation are publicly released to support reproducibility and facilitate future research in vision-based biomedical analysis.

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