Accurate classification of microalgal cells by frequency-division-multiplexed confocal imaging flow cytometry (Conference Presentation)

Hideharu Mikami; Jeffrey Harmon; Yasuyuki Ozeki; Keisuke Goda

doi:10.1117/12.2288017

15 March 2018 Accurate classification of microalgal cells by frequency-division-multiplexed confocal imaging flow cytometry (Conference Presentation)

Hideharu Mikami, Jeffrey Harmon, Yasuyuki Ozeki, Keisuke Goda

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Proceedings Volume 10505, High-Speed Biomedical Imaging and Spectroscopy III: Toward Big Data Instrumentation and Management; 105050I (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2288017
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2018, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Fluorescence imaging flow cytometry is an emerging technique for analyzing a large number of cells with high accuracy over conventional flow cytometry by virtue of its imaging capability. Unfortunately, the cell throughput of conventional fluorescence imaging flow cytometers (~1,000 cells/sec) is much lower than that of standard non-imaging flow cytometers due to the use of a CCD image sensor having a limited data transfer rate, making it difficult to analyze a large population of cells. Here we report our experimental demonstration of highly accurate classification of microalgae with a frequency-division-multiplexed confocal imaging flow cytometer (IFC) that enables imaging of every single microalgal cell with an unprecedentedly high throughput of 20,000 cells/sec. The high-speed imaging performance of the IFC is enabled by employing frequency-division-multiplexed confocal microscopy, which uses a sensitive single-pixel photodetector such as an avalanche photodetector or a photomultiplier tube to obtain images of flowing cells. We stained three species of microalgae (Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, Haematococcus lacustris, and Euglena gracilis) with SYTO16 and obtained three-color images of the cells (bright-field, fluorescence staining of nuclei, and autofluorescence of chlorophyll). We extracted 243-dimensional features from each three-color image and employed a support vector machine to classify the cells with the obtained multi-dimensional data. As a result, the cells were successfully classified with an accuracy of 99.7%. Due to the IFC’s multi-color imaging capability with an unprecedentedly high throughput, our technique has a wide variety of potential applications other than microalga classification, such as accurate blood screening and liquid biopsy.

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Hideharu Mikami, Jeffrey Harmon, Yasuyuki Ozeki, and Keisuke Goda "Accurate classification of microalgal cells by frequency-division-multiplexed confocal imaging flow cytometry (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 10505, High-Speed Biomedical Imaging and Spectroscopy III: Toward Big Data Instrumentation and Management, 105050I (15 March 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2288017

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Confocal microscopy

Flow cytometry

Luminescence

Ultrafast imaging

CCD image sensors

Frequency division multiplexing

High speed imaging

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