Oral Presentation Australasian Cytometry Society 41st Annual Conference

Intelligent image-activated cell sorting (24271)

Nao Nitta 1 2 3 , Takeaki Sugimura 1 2 3 , Yoichiroh Hosokawa 4 , Sotaro Uemura 5 , Yasuyuki Ozeki 6 , Keisuke Goda 1 2 7
  1. Department of Chemistry, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
  2. Japan Science and Technology Agency, Kawaguchi, Japan
  3. CYBO, Inc., Tokyo, Japan
  4. Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma, Japan
  5. Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
  6. Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
  7. Department of Electrical Engineering, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA

I introduce our novel machine intelligence technology known as “intelligent Image-Activated Cell Sorting (intelligent IACS)” [Cell 175, 1 (2018)]. This technology builds on a unique integration of high-throughput cell microscopy, focusing, and sorting techniques on a unique software-hardware platform and hence performs fully automated operation for data acquisition, data processing, decision making, and actuation. Also, I present two unique applications in microbiology and hematology enabled by the technology and discuss how technology enables machine-based scientific discovery in diverse biological and medical sciences.