Intelligent Image-Activated Cell Sorting

Nao Nitta, Takeaki Sugimura, Akihiro Isozaki, Hideharu Mikami, Kei Hiraki, Shinya Sakuma, Takanori Iino, Fumihito Arai, Taichiro Endo, Yasuhiro Fujiwaki, Hideya Fukuzawa, Misa Hase, Takeshi Hayakawa, Kotaro Hiramatsu, Yu Hoshino, Mary Inaba, Takuro Ito, Hiroshi Karakawa, Yusuke Kasai, Kenichi KoizumiSang Wook Lee, Cheng Lei, Ming Li, Takanori Maeno, Satoshi Matsusaka, Daichi Murakami, Atsuhiro Nakagawa, Yusuke Oguchi, Minoru Oikawa, Tadataka Ota, Kiyotaka Shiba, Hirofumi Shintaku, Yoshitaka Shirasaki, Kanako Suga, Yuta Suzuki, Nobutake Suzuki, Yo Tanaka, Hiroshi Tezuka, Chihana Toyokawa, Yaxiaer Yalikun, Makoto Yamada, Mai Yamagishi, Takashi Yamano, Atsushi Yasumoto, Yutaka Yatomi, Masayuki Yazawa, Dino Di Carlo, Yoichiroh Hosokawa, Sotaro Uemura, Yasuyuki Ozeki, Keisuke Goda

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Abstract

A fundamental challenge of biology is to understand the vast heterogeneity of cells, particularly how cellular composition, structure, and morphology are linked to cellular physiology. Unfortunately, conventional technologies are limited in uncovering these relations. We present a machine-intelligence technology based on a radically different architecture that realizes real-time image-based intelligent cell sorting at an unprecedented rate. This technology, which we refer to as intelligent image-activated cell sorting, integrates high-throughput cell microscopy, focusing, and sorting on a hybrid software-hardware data-management infrastructure, enabling real-time automated operation for data acquisition, data processing, decision-making, and actuation. We use it to demonstrate real-time sorting of microalgal and blood cells based on intracellular protein localization and cell-cell interaction from large heterogeneous populations for studying photosynthesis and atherothrombosis, respectively. The technology is highly versatile and expected to enable machine-based scientific discovery in biological, pharmaceutical, and medical sciences. Artificial-intelligence-assisted, image-based flow cytometry in real-time enables rapid cell sorting based on unique chemical and morphological features.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)266-276.e13
JournalCell
Volume175
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018 Sept 20

Keywords

  • cellular heterogeneity
  • cellular morphology
  • convolutional neural network
  • deep learning
  • high-throughput microscopy
  • high-throughput screening
  • image-activated cell sorting
  • machine intelligence

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all)

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