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Workshop: Generative AI and Biology (GenBio@NeurIPS2023)

Analysis of cellular phenotypes with image-based generative models

Ruben Fonnegra · Mohammad Vali Sanian · Zitong Sam Chen · Lassi Paavolainen · Juan C. Caicedo

Keywords: [ cellular phenotypes ] [ Self-supervised learning ] [ Generative Models ]

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presentation: Generative AI and Biology (GenBio@NeurIPS2023)
Sat 16 Dec 6:15 a.m. PST — 3:30 p.m. PST

Abstract:

Observing changes in cellular phenotypes under experimental interventions is a powerful approach for studying biology and has many applications, including treatment design. Unfortunately, not all interventions can be studied experimentally, which limits our ability to study complex phenomena such as combinatorial treatments or continuous time or dose responses. In this work, we explore image-based generative models to analyze phenotypic changes in cell morphology and tissue organization. The proposed approach is based on generative adversarial networks (GAN) conditioned on feature representations obtained with self-supervised learning. Our goal is to ensure that image-based phenotypes are accurately encoded in a latent space that can be later manipulated and used for generating images of novel phenotypic variations. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach for phenotype generation in a drug screen and a cancer tissue dataset.

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