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ArticleThe Journal of cell biology2025

AI-directed voxel extraction and volume EM identify intrusions as sites of mitochondrial contact.

Benjamin S Padman, Runa S J Lindblom, Michael Lazarou

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Benjamin S PadmanDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-5710-6100
Runa S J LindblomWalter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-6755-8744
Michael LazarouDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-2150-5545

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Aligning Science Across Parkinson ASAP-000350Australian Research Council Discovery Project DP200100347Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's ResearchNational Health and Medical Research Council GNT1106471National Health and Medical Research Council GNT2033297Rebecca Cooper Foundation Fellowship (RC20241396
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Abstract

Membrane contact sites (MCSs) establish organelle interactomes in cells to enable communication and exchange of materials. Volume EM (vEM) is ideally suited for MCS analyses, but semantic segmentation of large vEM datasets remains challenging. Recent adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) for segmentation has greatly enhanced our analysis capabilities. However, we show that organelle boundaries, which are important for defining MCS, are the least confident predictions made by AI. We outline a segmentation strategy termed AI-directed voxel extraction (AIVE), which refines segmentation results and boundary predictions derived from any AI-based method by combining those results with electron signal values. We demonstrate the precision conferred by AIVE by applying it to the quantitative analysis of organelle interactomes from multiple FIB-SEM datasets. Through AIVE, we discover a previously unknown category of mitochondrial contact that we term the mitochondrial intrusion. We hypothesize that intrusions serve as anchors that stabilize MCS and promote organelle communication.

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Artificial IntelligenceMicroscopy, ElectronMitochondriaHumansVolume Electron Microscopy

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PMID40736424
PMCPMC12309365

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