期刊
MICROMACHINES
卷 10, 期 5, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/mi10050311
关键词
microfluidics; 3D flow focusing; 3D particle focusing; particle; cell imaging; bioMEMS; unsupervised learning; neural networks; variational inference
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资金
- state of Baden-Wurttemberg through bwHPC
- German Research Foundation (DFG) [INST 35/1134-1 FUGG, DFG N498/12-1]
- Carl Zeiss Stiftung
- Ministry of Science and Culture (MWK) of Lower Saxony, Germany
- Foundation pour la Recherche Medicale
- French State fund [ANR-10-LABX-0030-INRT, ANR-10-IDEX-0002-02]
Single-cell analysis commonly requires the confinement of cell suspensions in an analysis chamber or the precise positioning of single cells in small channels. Hydrodynamic flow focusing has been broadly utilized to achieve stream confinement in microchannels for such applications. As imaging flow cytometry gains popularity, the need for imaging-compatible microfluidic devices that allow for precise confinement of single cells in small volumes becomes increasingly important. At the same time, high-throughput single-cell imaging of cell populations produces vast amounts of complex data, which gives rise to the need for versatile algorithms for image analysis. In this work, we present a microfluidics-based platform for single-cell imaging in-flow and subsequent image analysis using variational autoencoders for unsupervised characterization of cellular mixtures. We use simple and robust Y-shaped microfluidic devices and demonstrate precise 3D particle confinement towards the microscope slide for high-resolution imaging. To demonstrate applicability, we use these devices to confine heterogeneous mixtures of yeast species, brightfield-image them in-flow and demonstrate fully unsupervised, as well as few-shot classification of single-cell images with 88% accuracy.
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