Diagnosis of myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) mainly relies on a manual assessment of the peripheral blood and bone marrow cell morphology. The WHO guidelines suggest a visual screening of 200 to 500 cells which inevitably turns the assessor blind to rare cell populations and leads to low reproducibility. Moreover, the human eye is not suited to detect shifts of cellular properties of entire populations. Hence, quantitative image analysis could improve the accuracy and reproducibility of MDS diagnosis. We used real-time deformability cytometry (RT-DC) to measure bone marrow biopsy samples of MDS patients and age-matched healthy individuals. RT-DC is a high-throughput (1000 cells/s) imaging flow cytometer capable of recording morphological and mechanical properties of single cells. Properties of single cells were quantified using automated image analysis, and machine learning was employed to discover morpho-mechanical patterns in thousands of individual cells that allow to distinguish healthy vs. MDS samples. We found that distribution properties of cell sizes differ between healthy and MDS, with MDS showing a narrower distribution of cell sizes. Furthermore, we found a strong correlation between the mechanical properties of cells and the number of disease-determining mutations, inaccessible with current diagnostic approaches. Hence, machine-learning assisted RT-DC could be a promising tool to automate sample analysis to assist experts during diagnosis or provide a scalable solution for MDS diagnosis to regions lacking sufficient medical experts.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:90868 |
| Date | 16 May 2024 |
| Creators | Herbig, Maik, Jacobi, Angela, Wobus, Manja, Weidner, Heike, Mies, Anna, Kräter, Martin, Otto, Oliver, Thiede, Christian, Weickert, Marie‑Theresa, Götze, Katharina S., Rauner, Martina, Hofbauer, Lorenz C., Bornhäuser, Martin, Guck, Jochen, Ader, Marius, Platzbecker, Uwe, Balaian, Ekaterina |
| Publisher | Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, doc-type:article, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, doc-type:Text |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | 2045-2322, 870, 10.1038/s41598-022-04939-z, info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft/SPP 2127: Gen- und Zellbasierte Therapien für die Behandlung neuroretinaler Degeneration/399422891/, info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft/SFB 655: Von Zellen zu Geweben: Determination und Interaktionen von Stammzellen und Vorläuferzellen bei der Gewebebildung/12447019/, info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/Deutsche Knochenmarkspende Mechthild Harf/Forschungsstipendium/DKMS-SLSMHG- 2016-02/ |
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