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ArticleBiosensors2023

WSCNet: Biomedical Image Recognition for Cell Encapsulated Microfluidic Droplets.

Xiao Zhou, Yuanhang Mao, Miao Gu, Zhen Cheng

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Article in Biosensors, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Xiao ZhouDepartment of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
Yuanhang MaoDepartment of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.ORCID 0009-0007-5014-3033
Miao GuDepartment of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
Zhen ChengDepartment of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.ORCID 0000-0001-8197-5560

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China 62103228
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Microfluidic droplets accommodating a single cell as independent microreactors are frequently demanded for single-cell analysis of phenotype and genotype. However, challenges exist in identifying and reducing the covalence probability (following Poisson's distribution) of more than two cells encapsulated in one droplet. It is of great significance to monitor and control the quantity of encapsulated content inside each droplet. We demonstrated a microfluidic system embedded with a weakly supervised cell counting network (WSCNet) to generate microfluidic droplets, evaluate their quality, and further recognize the locations of encapsulated cells. Here, we systematically verified our approach using encapsulated droplets from three different microfluidic structures. Quantitative experimental results showed that our approach can not only distinguish droplet encapsulations (F1 score > 0.88) but also locate each cell without any supervised location information (accuracy > 89%). The probability of a "single cell in one droplet" encapsulation is systematically verified under different parameters, which shows good agreement with the distribution of the passive method (Residual Sum of Squares, RSS < 0.5). This study offers a comprehensive platform for the quantitative assessment of encapsulated microfluidic droplets.

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MicrofluidicsSingle-Cell AnalysisCell CountGenotypePhenotypeconvolutional neural network (CNN)droplet microfluidicsimage recognitionsingle-cell encapsulation

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PMID37622907
PMCPMC10452702

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