Automatic detection of leukemia cells by 2D light scattering microfluidic cytometry and deep learning

Leukemia is a worldwide malignant tumor with high morbidity and mortality. Developing screening methods for leukemia cells is of great significance for clinical diagnosis. Traditional biochemical and immunohistochemical detection methods that usually require fluorescence labeling are time-consuming and labor-intensive. Here we report a deep learning based 2D light scattering cytometric technique for high-precision, automatic and label-free identification of lymphocytic leukemia cells. A deep convolutional neural network (CNN) is used for learning the biological characteristics of 2D light scattering patterns. The Inception V3 network can identify different label-free acute lymphocytic leukemia cells with a high accuracy. The results show that the deep learning based 2D light scattering microfluidic cytometry is promising for early diagnosis of leukemia, and has the advantages of label free, high efficiency and high automation.

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