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PeacoQC: Peak-based selection of high quality cytometry data
Annelies Emmaneel1,2, Katrien Quintelier1,2,3, Dorine Sichien4,5
1Data Mining and Modeling for Biomedicine Group, VIB Center for Inflammation Research, Ghent, Belgium.
Summary
A new automated quality control algorithm, PeacoQC, effectively filters erroneous events in high-dimensional cytometry data. This novel approach ensures high-quality data for downstream analysis, outperforming existing methods in accuracy and scalability.
Area of Science:
- Computational Biology
- Bioinformatics
- Data Science
Background:
- Cytometry analysis generates high-dimensional data from millions of cells.
- Erroneous events during measurement can compromise downstream analysis and lead to false discoveries.
- Manual detection of these anomalies is challenging, necessitating automated solutions.
Purpose of the Study:
- To develop and evaluate a novel automated quality control algorithm, PeacoQC, for cleaning cytometry data.
- To compare PeacoQC's performance against existing quality control tools.
Main Methods:
- PeacoQC identifies density peaks per channel and removes low-quality events based on isolation tree position and deviation from these peaks.
- The algorithm was tested on diverse flow, mass, and spectral cytometry datasets.
- Performance was evaluated against flowAI, flowClean, and flowCut.
Main Results:
- PeacoQC successfully filtered anomalies across all tested cytometry data types, unlike other methods.
- It achieved the highest median balanced accuracy with comparable running times and superior scalability for large files.
- Robust parameter choices were confirmed across 16 public datasets, with only one requiring optimization.
Conclusions:
- PeacoQC is a fast, accurate, and robust automated quality control algorithm for cytometry data.
- It outperforms existing tools in anomaly detection and data cleaning.
- The algorithm ensures high-quality data suitable for reliable downstream analysis.
