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Follow on Google News | Deep learning and holography create a better point-of-care sensorBy: UCLA ITA In a new paper published in Lab on a Chip, a team of scientists from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has developed a rapid and cost-effective particle agglutination based sensor that is powered by holographic imaging and deep learning. A disposable capillary-based flow device is designed to host the agglutination reaction with a material cost of under 2 cents per test. A mobile and inexpensive holographic microscope captures a movie of the sample, monitoring the particle clustering process over 3 minutes. This captured holographic movie is rapidly processed by trained neural networks to automatically measure the target analyte concentration within the sample. The efficacy of this deep learning-enabled point-of-care sensor was demonstrated by accurately measuring C-reactive protein concentration in human serum samples. C-reactive protein (CRP) is a general biomarker produced by the liver in response to inflammation within the body and is commonly used as an indicator of myocardial dysfunction and heart failure. Tested on various serum samples from unique patients, this computational sensor was able to accurately measure the concentration of CRP within the high-sensitivity range, spanning 0-10µg/mL. Importantly, this mobile sensor was also able to successfully detect very high CRP concentrations, far exceeding 10µg/mL, which is in general difficult for other sensors to measure due to their limited dynamic range of analyte concentration. This research was led by Dr. Ozcan, in collaboration with Dr. Omai Garner, a Professor of Clinical Microbiology and the Director of Point of Care Testing at UCLA. The other authors of this work are Yi Luo, Hyou-Arm Joung, Sarah Esparza, Jingyou Rao of UCLA. Link to the paper: https://pubs.rsc.org/ End
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