Nature Communications (Sep 2022)

An analysis modality for vascular structures combining tissue-clearing technology and topological data analysis

  • Kei Takahashi,
  • Ko Abe,
  • Shimpei I. Kubota,
  • Noriaki Fukatsu,
  • Yasuyuki Morishita,
  • Yasuhiro Yoshimatsu,
  • Satoshi Hirakawa,
  • Yoshiaki Kubota,
  • Tetsuro Watabe,
  • Shogo Ehata,
  • Hiroki R. Ueda,
  • Teppei Shimamura,
  • Kohei Miyazono

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32848-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Understanding blood and lymphatic vasculature networks is currently limited by existing imaging systems and quantification methods. Here the authors use the tissue clearing method CUBIC to generate 3D images, machine learning to capture the signals, and extract geometric features by topological data analysis.