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ArticleNature reviews. Methods primers2022

Imaging flow cytometry: a primer.

Paul Rees, Huw D Summers, Andrew Filby, Anne E Carpenter, Minh Doan

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5 authors.

Paul ReesDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Swansea University, Bay Campus, Swansea SA1 8EN, United Kingdom.
Huw D SummersDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Swansea University, Bay Campus, Swansea SA1 8EN, United Kingdom.
Andrew FilbyFlow Cytometry Core Facility and Innovation, Methodology and Application Research Theme, Biosciences Institute, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
Anne E CarpenterImaging Platform, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts MA 02142, United States of America.
Minh DoanBioimaging Analytics, GlaxoSmithKline, Collegeville, PA, United States of America.

Funding

Extracting rich information from biological imagesR35GM122547 · NIGMS · BROAD INSTITUTE, INC. · PI Anne E. Carpenter · 2017 to 2026
$6.2M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM122547
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Imaging flow cytometry combines the high throughput nature of flow cytometry with the advantages of single cell image acquisition associated with microscopy. The measurement of large numbers of features from the resulting images provides rich datasets which have resulted in a wide range of novel biomedical applications. In this primer we discuss the typical imaging flow instrumentation, the form of data acquired and the typical analysis tools that can be applied to this data. Using examples from the literature we discuss the progression of the analysis methods that have been applied to imaging flow cytometry data. These methods start from the use of simple single image features and multiple channel gating strategies, followed by the design and use of custom features for phenotype classification, through to powerful machine and deep learning methods. For each of these methods, we outline the processes involved in analyzing typical datasets and provide details of example applications. Finally we discuss the current limitations of imaging flow cytometry and the innovations which are addressing these challenges.

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