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ItemNo Preview AvailableAutomated framework to reconstruct 3D model of cardiac Z-disk: an image processing approachHanssen, E ; Rajagopal, V ; Khadankishandi, A ; Zheng, H ; Callejas, Z ; Griol, D ; Wang, H ; Hu, X ; Schmidt, H ; Baumbach, J ; Dickerson, J ; Zhang, L (IEEE, 2018)The Z-disk or Z-line is located at the lateral borders of sarcomere, the fundamental unit of striated muscle. They provide mechanical stability and can boost contractility of cardiac myocytes. In this paper, we propose to generate a 3D model of Z-disks within single adult cardiac cells from an automated segmentation of a large serial-block-face scanning electron microscopy (SBF-SEM) dataset. The proposed fully automated segmentation scheme is comprised of three main modules including “pre-processing”, “segmentation” and “refinement”. We represent a timely-efficient, simple, yet effective model to perform segmentation and refinement steps. Contrast stretching, and Gaussian kernels are used to pre- process the dataset, and well-known “Sobel operators” are used in the segmentation module. We have validated our model by comparing segmentation results with ground-truth annotated Z-disks in terms of pixel-wise accuracy. The results show that our model correctly detects Z-disks with 90.56% accuracy. Finally, the underlying network of Z-disks are rendered in 3D using ImageJ and IMARIS.