Traditionally,optical microscopy is used to visualize the morphological features of pathogenic bacteria,of which the features are further used for the detection and ident ification of the bacteria.However,due to the r...Traditionally,optical microscopy is used to visualize the morphological features of pathogenic bacteria,of which the features are further used for the detection and ident ification of the bacteria.However,due to the resolution limitation of conventional optical microscopy as well as the lack of standard pattern library for bacteria identification,the ffectiveness of this optical microscopy-based method is limited.Here,we reported a pilot study on a combined use of Structured Illumination Microscopy(SIM)with machine learning for rapid bacteria identification.After applying machine learning to the SIM image datasets from three model bacteria(including Escherichia coli,Mycobacterium smegmatis,and Pseudomonas aeruginosa),we obtained a classifcation accuracy of up to 98%.This study points out a promising possibility for rapid bacterial identification by morphological features.展开更多
基金supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(Grant No.2017-YFD0500303)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.31371106,91640105)+1 种基金the China Agriculture Research System(No.CARS-36)the Huazhong Agricultural University Scienti¯c and Technological Self-innovation Foundation(Program No.52204-13002).
文摘Traditionally,optical microscopy is used to visualize the morphological features of pathogenic bacteria,of which the features are further used for the detection and ident ification of the bacteria.However,due to the resolution limitation of conventional optical microscopy as well as the lack of standard pattern library for bacteria identification,the ffectiveness of this optical microscopy-based method is limited.Here,we reported a pilot study on a combined use of Structured Illumination Microscopy(SIM)with machine learning for rapid bacteria identification.After applying machine learning to the SIM image datasets from three model bacteria(including Escherichia coli,Mycobacterium smegmatis,and Pseudomonas aeruginosa),we obtained a classifcation accuracy of up to 98%.This study points out a promising possibility for rapid bacterial identification by morphological features.
