STAT September 4, 2019
You’re looking at two versions of the same video of a moment in a single cell, captured under a powerful microscope. The red and yellow structures are mitochondria, and the inset magnified in the bottom left hand corner in each view captures a mitochondrion dividing.
The view on the left shows the raw data as it came off the microscope; you might think of it like a social media influencer’s first take, before any filters have been applied to get that Instagram-ready look. And the view on the right? That’s the same data after scientists processed it with software powered by deep learning, an artificial intelligence technique that’s swiftly gaining traction in biomedical science.
The result? While Instagram presets often...