Issue 16, 2019

Intelligent whole-blood imaging flow cytometry for simple, rapid, and cost-effective drug-susceptibility testing of leukemia

Abstract

Drug susceptibility (also called chemosensitivity) is an important criterion for developing a therapeutic strategy for various cancer types such as breast cancer and leukemia. Recently, functional assays such as high-content screening together with genomic analysis have been shown to be effective for predicting drug susceptibility, but their clinical applicability is poor since they are time-consuming (several days long), labor-intensive, and costly. Here we present a highly simple, rapid, and cost-effective liquid biopsy for ex vivo drug-susceptibility testing of leukemia. The method is based on an extreme-throughput (>1 million cells per second), label-free, whole-blood imaging flow cytometer with a deep convolutional autoencoder, enabling image-based identification of the drug susceptibility of every single white blood cell in whole blood within 24 hours by simply flowing a drug-treated whole blood sample as little as 500 μL into the imaging flow cytometer without labeling. Our results show that the method accurately evaluates the drug susceptibility of white blood cells from untreated patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Our method holds promise for affordable precision medicine.

Graphical abstract: Intelligent whole-blood imaging flow cytometry for simple, rapid, and cost-effective drug-susceptibility testing of leukemia

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
15 dez 2018
Accepted
20 jun 2019
First published
09 jul 2019

Lab Chip, 2019,19, 2688-2698

Intelligent whole-blood imaging flow cytometry for simple, rapid, and cost-effective drug-susceptibility testing of leukemia

H. Kobayashi, C. Lei, Y. Wu, C. Huang, A. Yasumoto, M. Jona, W. Li, Y. Wu, Y. Yalikun, Y. Jiang, B. Guo, C. Sun, Y. Tanaka, M. Yamada, Y. Yatomi and K. Goda, Lab Chip, 2019, 19, 2688 DOI: 10.1039/C8LC01370E

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