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Here, we studied the morphologies of 10 antibiotic-resistant strains of\n                    <jats:italic>Escherichia coli<\/jats:italic>\n                    and used bioinformatics tools to classify the resistant cells under light microscopy in the absence of antibiotics. The antibiotic-resistant strains showed differences in morphology from the sensitive parental strain, and the differences were most prominent in the quinolone-and \u03b2-lactam-resistant bacteria. A cluster analysis revealed increased proportions of fatter or shorter cells in the antibiotic-resistant strains. A correlation analysis of morphological features and gene expression suggested that genes related to energy metabolism and antibiotic resistance were highly correlated with the morphological characteristics of the resistant strains. Our newly proposed deep learning method for single-cell classification achieved a high level of performance in classifying quinolone-and \u03b2-lactam-resistant strains.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3389\/fmicb.2024.1450804","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,9,19]],"date-time":"2024-09-19T00:32:45Z","timestamp":1726705965000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":10,"title":["Bioinformatic analysis reveals the association between bacterial morphology and antibiotic resistance using light microscopy with deep learning"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Miki","family":"Ikebe","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Kota","family":"Aoki","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Mitsuko","family":"Hayashi-Nishino","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Chikara","family":"Furusawa","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Kunihiko","family":"Nishino","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,9,19]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"iyad031","DOI":"10.1093\/genetics\/iyad031","article-title":"The gene ontology knowledgebase in 2023","volume":"224","author":"Aleksander","year":"2023","journal-title":"Genetics"},{"key":"ref2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1037","DOI":"10.1016\/j.cell.2007.03.004","article-title":"Molecular mechanisms of antibacterial multidrug resistance","volume":"128","author":"Alekshun","year":"2007","journal-title":"Cell"},{"key":"ref3","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"25","DOI":"10.1038\/75556","article-title":"Gene ontology: tool for the unification of biology. 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