High-throughput electrical position detection of single flowing particles/cells with non-spherical shape

Reale, Riccardo; Ninno, Adele De; Businaro, Luca; Bisegna, Paolo; Caselli, Federica

doi:10.1039/c9lc00071b

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“…Finally, the peak-to-peak time is used to compute particle velocity V. The procedure to obtain electrical estimates of particle diameter, position, and velocity from the features of the template is reported in Section 1 of the Electronic Supplementary Material (ESM). Compared with our previous chip for multiparametric cell characterization [7], the current design has two improvements in data acquisition and extraction. First, the length of the sensing zone is significantly shorter, thereby reducing the fraction of particle coincidence.…”

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“…beads and RBCs. The latter could be distinguished from beads by means of electrical opacity (e.g., [7]). The histograms of diameter, velocity, and vertical position are reported in the first, second, and third columns, respectively.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In this work, the features (diameter, velocity, and position) computed by means of least-square template fitting on impedance signals have been used as labels (i.e., target values). Their accuracy has been assessed in our previous works [7,37,44]. Alternatively, features computed by means of image processing could be used [33].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For instance, depending on the stimulation frequency, signal peak amplitude provides information on particle size, membrane capacitance, or intracellular conductivity [5]. Moreover, electrical fingerprints conveying inf7ormation on both cell intrinsic properties (size, electrical opacity, shape indicators) and cell motion (velocity, cross-sectional position) can be obtained, using particular electrode designs and associated wiring schemes [6][7][8]. Signal processing of the raw impedance data streams typically involves four steps: preliminary detrending/ denoising, data stream segmentation (event detection), extraction of features (like peak amplitude and transit time), and cell classification.…”

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“…Signal processing of the raw impedance data streams typically involves four steps: preliminary detrending/ denoising, data stream segmentation (event detection), extraction of features (like peak amplitude and transit time), and cell classification. Several signal processing techniques have been implemented in impedance cytometry, like Savitzky-Golay filter for denoising [9,10], wavelet-based or correlation-based approaches for event detection [10,11], least-squares template fitting for feature extraction [7,9], and support vector machines or neural networks for classification [12][13][14][15]. However, other than protocols based on threshold-based particle counting [16], signal processing of the raw impedance data streams is usually performed post-experiment (offline).…”

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Microfluidic applications such as active particle sorting or selective enrichment require particle classification techniques that are capable of working in real time. In this paper, we explore the use of neural networks for fast label-free particle characterization during microfluidic impedance cytometry. A recurrent neural network is designed to process data from a novel impedance chip layout for enabling real-time multiparametric analysis of the measured impedance data streams. As demonstrated with both synthetic and experimental datasets, the trained network is able to characterize with good accuracy size, velocity, and crosssectional position of beads, red blood cells, and yeasts, with a unitary prediction time of 0.4 ms. The proposed approach can be extended to other device designs and cell types for electrical parameter extraction. This combination of microfluidic impedance cytometry and machine learning can serve as a stepping stone to real-time single-cell analysis and sorting.

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High-throughput electrical position detection of single flowing particles/cells with non-spherical shape

Abstract: A novel all-electrical approach for cross-sectional position detection of flowing particles and cells.

Cited by 35 publications

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Supervised machine learning in microfluidic impedance flow cytometry for improved particle size determination

Microfluidic characterization of single‐cell biophysical properties and the applications in cancer diagnosis

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