Cell damage evaluation by intelligent imaging flow cytometry

Essential thrombocythemia (ET) is an uncommon situation in which the body produces too many platelets. This can cause blood clots anywhere in the body and results in various symptoms and even strokes or heart attacks. Removing excessive platelets using acoustofluidic methods receives extensive atten...

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Published in:Cytometry. Part A 2023-08, Vol.103 (8), p.646-654
Main Authors: Yao, Yifan, He, Li, Mei, Liye, Weng, Yueyun, Huang, Jin, Wei, Shubin, Li, Rubing, Tian, Sheng, Liu, Pan, Ruan, Xiaolan, Wang, Du, Zhou, Fuling, Lei, Cheng
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acoustic waves
acoustofluidic sorting
Algorithms
biophysical phenotypic
Blood coagulation
cell damage
Damage assessment
Errors
Erythrocytes
Flow cytometry
Imaging
imaging flow cytometry
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Leukocytes
Machine learning
microfluidics
optical time‐stretch imaging
Platelets
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Summary:Essential thrombocythemia (ET) is an uncommon situation in which the body produces too many platelets. This can cause blood clots anywhere in the body and results in various symptoms and even strokes or heart attacks. Removing excessive platelets using acoustofluidic methods receives extensive attention due to their high efficiency and high yield. While the damage to the remaining cells, such as erythrocytes and leukocytes is yet evaluated. Existing cell damage evaluation methods usually require cell staining, which are time‐consuming and labor‐intensive. In this paper, we investigate cell damage by optical time‐stretch (OTS) imaging flow cytometry with high throughput and in a label‐free manner. Specifically, we first image the erythrocytes and leukocytes sorted by acoustofluidic sorting chip with different acoustic wave powers and flowing speed using OTS imaging flow cytometry at a flowing speed up to 1 m/s. Then, we employ machine learning algorithms to extract biophysical phenotypic features from the cellular images, as well as to cluster and identify images. The results show that both the errors of the biophysical phenotypic features and the proportion of abnormal cells are within 10% in the undamaged cell groups, while the errors are much greater than 10% in the damaged cell groups, indicating that acoustofluidic sorting causes little damage to the cells within the appropriate acoustic power, agreeing well with clinical assays. Our method provides a novel approach for high‐throughput and label‐free cell damage evaluation in scientific research and clinical settings.
ISSN:1552-4922
1552-4930
DOI:10.1002/cyto.a.24731