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ArticleiScience2023

Quantifying the deformability of malaria-infected red blood cells using deep learning trained on synthetic cells.

Daniel T Rademaker, Joshua J Koopmans, Gwendolyn M S M Thyen, Aigars Piruska, Wilhelm T S Huck, Gert Vriend, Peter A C 't Hoen, Taco W A Kooij, Martijn A Huynen, Nicholas I Proellochs

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Article in iScience, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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10 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Daniel T RademakerMedical BioSciences, Radboud University Medical Center, 6525 GA Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
Joshua J KoopmansMedical BioSciences, Radboud University Medical Center, 6525 GA Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
Gwendolyn M S M ThyenRadboud Center for Infectious Diseases, Medical Microbiology, Radboud University Medical Center, 6525 GA Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
Aigars PiruskaInstitute for Molecules and Materials, Radboud University, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
Wilhelm T S HuckInstitute for Molecules and Materials, Radboud University, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
Gert VriendBaco Institute for Protein Science, Mindoro 5201, Philippines.
Peter A C 't HoenMedical BioSciences, Radboud University Medical Center, 6525 GA Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
Taco W A KooijRadboud Center for Infectious Diseases, Medical Microbiology, Radboud University Medical Center, 6525 GA Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
Martijn A HuynenMedical BioSciences, Radboud University Medical Center, 6525 GA Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
Nicholas I ProellochsRadboud Center for Infectious Diseases, Medical Microbiology, Radboud University Medical Center, 6525 GA Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
Radboud University Nijmegen · NLRadboud University Medical Center · NLUniversity Medical Center · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Several hematologic diseases, including malaria, diabetes, and sickle cell anemia, result in a reduced red blood cell deformability. This deformability can be measured using a microfluidic device with channels of varying width. Nevertheless, it is challenging to algorithmically recognize large numbers of red blood cells and quantify their deformability from image data. Deep learning has become the method of choice to handle noisy and complex image data. However, it requires a significant amount of labeled data to train the neural networks. By creating images of cells and mimicking noise and plasticity in those images, we generate synthetic data to train a network to detect and segment red blood cells from video-recordings, without the need for manually annotated labels. Using this new method, we uncover significant differences between the deformability of RBCs infected with different strains of

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