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FTIR Spectroscopic Imaging Supports Urine Cytology for Classification of Low- and High-Grade Bladder Carcinoma

Journal

CANCERS
Volume 13, Issue 22, Pages -

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/cancers13225734

Keywords

bladder carcinoma; infrared spectroscopic imaging; diagnostics; cytology

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Funding

  1. National Science Centre in Poland (Preludium 16) [UMO-2018/31/N/NZ4/00911]
  2. InterDokMed project [POWR.03.02.00-00-I013/16]
  3. Priority Research Area Digiworld Excellence Initiative-Research University at the Jagiellonian University

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This study used FTIR to analyze patients' cytology samples, revealing a correlation between normal cell types and morphology, as well as identifying protein content variation in bladder cancer cells. Spectral classification using PLS-DA showed that voided urine cytology may be helpful in bladder cancer diagnosis.
Simple SummaryHuman urine cytological samples were investigated using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopic imaging in terms of recognition of bladder cancer. The clustering of IR spectra of whole cytological smears revealed very good spectral correlation with normal urothelial cell features. Next, the combination of spectral information derived from unsupervised hierarchical cluster analysis and partial least square discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) classified normal vs. low- and high-grade bladder urothelial carcinoma with sensitivity and specificity of 90-97%.Bladder urothelial carcinoma (BC) is a common, recurrent, life-threatening, and unpredictable disease which is difficult to diagnose. These features make it one of the costliest malignancies. Although many possible diagnostic methods are available, molecular heterogeneity and difficulties in cytological or histological examination induce an urgent need to improve diagnostic techniques. Herein, we applied Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy in imaging mode (FTIR) to investigate patients' cytology samples assigned to normal (N), low-grade (LG) and high-grade (HG) BC. With unsupervised hierarchical cluster analysis (UHCA) and hematoxylin-eosin (HE) staining, we observed a correlation between N cell types and morphology. High-glycogen superficial (umbrella) and low-glycogen piriform urothelial cells, both with normal morphology, were observed. Based on the spectra derived from UHCA, principal component analysis (PCA) and partial least squares discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) were performed, indicating a variation of protein content between the patient groups. Moreover, BC spectral cytology identified a low number of high-glycogen cells for which a shift of the carbohydrate/phosphate bands was also observed. Despite high cellular heterogeneity, PLS-DA was able to classify the spectra obtained. The voided urine FTIR cytology is one of the options that might be helpful in BC diagnosis, as high sensitivity and specificity up to 97% were determined.

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