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AI-CMCA: a deep learning-based segmentation framework for capillary microfluidic chip analysis.

Mahmood Khalghollah^1,2,3, Azam Zare^2,3, Esmaeil Shakeri¹

¹Department of Electrical and Software Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, T2N 1N4, Canada.

Scientific Reports

|July 21, 2025

Summary

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AI-CMCA automates fluid path tracking in capillary microfluidic chips (CMCs) using AI. This deep learning framework significantly speeds up analysis and improves consistency for point-of-care diagnostics and biomedical sensing.

Keywords:

Capillary microfluidic chip Deep learning Fluid path detection Image segmentation Passive fluid transport Point-of-care diagnostics

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Area of Science:

Microfluidics
Artificial Intelligence
Biomedical Engineering

Background:

Capillary microfluidic chips (CMCs) are vital for diagnostics and sensing due to passive liquid transport.
Manual analysis of fluid flow in CMCs is labor-intensive, slow, and inconsistent.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop an automated artificial intelligence framework (AI-CMCA) for analyzing fluid paths in CMCs.
To enhance the efficiency, precision, and reproducibility of microfluidic research.

Main Methods:

AI-CMCA employs deep learning-based semantic segmentation for fluid detection and tracking.
The framework utilizes transfer learning and sequential frame analysis, with U-Net and MobileNetV2 architecture showing optimal performance.
Evaluated against manual tracking, AI-CMCA demonstrated high accuracy and robustness.

Main Results:

The U-Net with MobileNetV2 achieved 99.24% IoU and 99.56% F1-score.
AI-CMCA analysis was up to 100x faster and over 10x more consistent than manual methods.
The framework showed strong correlation with manual data while reducing analysis time from days to minutes.

Conclusions:

AI-CMCA offers a highly efficient, precise, and automated solution for capillary microfluidic chip analysis.
The lightweight AI model is suitable for deployment on smartphones or edge devices.
This automation significantly advances microfluidic research and point-of-care diagnostic development.