Bukas, C. ; Galter, I. ; da Silva Buttkus, P. ; Fuchs, H. ; Maier, H. ; Gailus-Durner, V. ; Müller, C.L. ; Hrabě de Angelis, M. ; Piraud, M. ; Spielmann, N.
Echo2Pheno: A deep-learning application to uncover echocardiographic phenotypes in conscious mice.
Mamm. Genome 34, 200-215 (2023)
Echocardiography, a rapid and cost-effective imaging technique, assesses cardiac function and structure. Despite its popularity in cardiovascular medicine and clinical research, image-derived phenotypic measurements are manually performed, requiring expert knowledge and training. Notwithstanding great progress in deep-learning applications in small animal echocardiography, the focus has so far only been on images of anesthetized rodents. We present here a new algorithm specifically designed for echocardiograms acquired in conscious mice called Echo2Pheno, an automatic statistical learning workflow for analyzing and interpreting high-throughput non-anesthetized transthoracic murine echocardiographic images in the presence of genetic knockouts. Echo2Pheno comprises a neural network module for echocardiographic image analysis and phenotypic measurements, including a statistical hypothesis-testing framework for assessing phenotypic differences between populations. Using 2159 images of 16 different knockout mouse strains of the German Mouse Clinic, Echo2Pheno accurately confirms known cardiovascular genotype-phenotype relationships (e.g., Dystrophin) and discovers novel genes (e.g., CCR4-NOT transcription complex subunit 6-like, Cnot6l, and synaptotagmin-like protein 4, Sytl4), which cause altered cardiovascular phenotypes, as verified by H&E-stained histological images. Echo2Pheno provides an important step toward automatic end-to-end learning for linking echocardiographic readouts to cardiovascular phenotypes of interest in conscious mice.
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Mitochondrial; Identification; Slc6a15; Risk
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2023
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0938-8990
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30201 - Metabolic Health
30205 - Bioengineering and Digital Health
90000 - German Center for Diabetes Research
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Genetics and Epidemiology
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German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) (MHdA)
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2023-10-06