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Haodong Li¹, Jie Bai², Xiaxian Ma¹

¹Shanxi Key Lab for Modernization of TCVM, College of Life Science, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taiyuan 030000, Shanxi, P. R. China.

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Area of Science:

Biomedical Engineering
Computational Biology
Medical Diagnostics

Background:

Cell sorting is crucial for diagnostics and early intervention.
Microfluidic systems offer precise hydrodynamic control for cell isolation and analysis.
Large imaging datasets from microfluidics require advanced computational analysis.

Purpose of the Study:

To review the integration of microfluidics and machine intelligence in cell sorting.
To examine their combined impact on diagnostic accuracy and throughput.
To outline future directions for intelligent biosensing in precision medicine.

Main Methods:

Review of microfluidic cell sorting techniques.
Application of machine learning (computer vision, deep learning) for data analysis.
Synthesis of research on flow-field optimization, cellular classification, and error correction.

Main Results:

Machine learning enhances automated feature extraction, pattern recognition, and real-time classification in microfluidic cell sorting.
Synergistic integration improves sorting accuracy, diagnostic speed, and analytical throughput.
Breakthroughs in diagnostic sensitivity and efficiency are highlighted.

Conclusions:

The convergence of microfluidics and machine intelligence is transforming cell sorting for diagnostics.
Challenges include model generalizability and hardware-software integration.
Future developments focus on multimodal data fusion and on-chip intelligent systems for precision medicine.