An unsupervised machine learning approach improves the mass sensitivity of iSCAT by a factor of 4 to below 10 kDa, enabling the detection of small traces of biomolecules and disease markers.
Interferometric scattering (iSCAT) microscopy is a label-free optical method capable of detecting single proteins, localizing their binding positions with nanometer precision, and measuring their mass. In the ideal case, iSCAT is limited by shot noise such that collection of more photons should extend its detection sensitivity to biomolecules of arbitrarily low mass. However, a number of technical noise sources combined with speckle-like background fluctuations have restricted the detection limit in iSCAT. Here, we show that an unsupervised machine learning isolation forest algorithm for anomaly detection pushes the mass sensitivity limit by a factor of 4 to below 10 kDa. We implement this scheme both with a user-defined feature matrix and a self-supervised FastDVDNet and validate our results with correlative fluorescence images recorded in total internal reflection mode. Our work opens the door to optical investigations of small traces of biomolecules and disease markers such as alpha-synuclein, chemokines and cytokines. An unsupervised machine learning approach for anomaly detection, implemented as both a user-defined feature matrix and a self-supervised deep neural network, improves the mass sensitivity of iSCAT by a factor of 4 to below 10 kDa.
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