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Area of Science:

  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Immunology
  • Artificial Intelligence

Background:

  • Accurate immune cell quantification is crucial for disease management.
  • Current methods like flow cytometry are labor-intensive, costly, and require specialized equipment.
  • Existing microfluidic devices often involve complex sample preparation and instrumentation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop an AI-enabled microfluidic cytometer for rapid and accurate quantification of CD4+ T cells in whole blood.
  • To create a portable, cost-effective, and user-friendly cell quantification tool.
  • To reduce reliance on traditional flow cytometry in resource-limited settings.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized anti-CD4 antibody-coated microbeads for labeling CD4+ T cells.
  • Employed gravity-driven slug flow within a microfluidic chip for pump-free operation.
  • Applied a convolutional neural network (CNN) model to analyze microscope videos for cell detection.

Main Results:

  • Achieved CD4+ T cell quantification with accuracy comparable to flow cytometry (<10% deviation).
  • Demonstrated a platform that is at least 4x faster, less expensive, and simpler to operate than traditional methods.
  • Successfully analyzed fingerprick blood samples from healthy donors.

Conclusions:

  • The AI-enabled microfluidic cytometer provides a rapid, accurate, and accessible method for CD4+ T cell quantification.
  • This technology has the potential for broad application in point-of-care diagnostics and low-resource settings.
  • The platform is adaptable for quantifying other immune cell subpopulations by changing antibody coatings.