Machine learning radically reduces workload of cell counting for disease diagnosis

24-May-2022 - The use of machine learning to perform blood cell counts for diagnosis of disease instead of expensive and often less accurate cell analyzer machines has nevertheless been very labor-intensive as it takes an enormous amount of manual annotation work by humans in the training of the machine ...

Pioneering new technique to barcode cells

New method, that combines artificial intelligence with microfluidics, that can easily classify, sort and count individual cells

21-Dec-2021 - Scientists have developed a pioneering new technique to barcode individual cells more accurately and efficiently - which could help pave the way for quicker disease diagnosis. A team of researchers from the Living Systems Institute at the University of Exeter has created a new method, that ...

A clearer cancer test by measuring immune response

Jérôme Galon named European Inventor Award 2019 finalist

09-May-2019 - The European Patent Office (EPO) today announced that French immunologist Jérôme Galon has been nominated for the European Inventor Award 2019 for his diagnostic cancer test based on a patient's immune response. His invention, which has improved the accuracy of cancer prognosis, uses clues found ...

A microfluidic biochip for blood cell counts at the point-of-care

22-Dec-2015 - Teams of researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) have demonstrated a biosensor capable of counting the blood cells electrically using only a drop of blood. The blood cell count is among the most ubiquitous diagnostic tests in primary health care. The gold standard ...