This protocol describes a high-throughput workflow for artificial intelligence-driven segmentation of pathology-confirmed regions of interest from stained, thin tissue section images for enrichment of histology-resolved cell populations using laser microdissection. This strategy includes a novel algorithm enabling the transfer of demarcations denoting cell populations of interest directly to laser microscopes.
Mitchell, D., Hunt, A. L., Conrads, K. A., Hood, B. L., Makohon-Moore, S. C., Rojas, C., Maxwell, G. L., Bateman, N. W., Conrads, T. P. Industrialized, Artificial Intelligence-guided Laser Microdissection for Microscaled Proteomic Analysis of the Tumor Microenvironment. J. Vis. Exp. (184), e64171, doi:10.3791/64171 (2022).