Detection of Human Bladder Epithelial Cancerous Cells with Atomic Force Microscopy and Machine Learning

Mikhail Petrov 1, Nadezhda Makarova 1, Amir Monemian 2, Jean Pham 2, Małgorzata Lekka 3, Igor Sokolov 1 4 Affiliations Expand Abstract The development of noninvasive methods for bladder cancer identification remains a critical clinical need. Recent studies have shown that atomic force microscopy (AFM), combined with pattern recognition machine learning, can detect bladder cancer by analyzing cells extracted from urine. However, these promising findings were limited by […]

2018 | NONINVASIVE DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING USING MACHINE-LEARNING ANALYSIS OF NANORESOLUTION IMAGES OF CELL SURFACES: DETECTION OF BLADDER CANCER

We report an approach in diagnostic imaging based on nanoscale-resolution scanning of surfaces of cells collected from body fluids using a recent modality of atomic force microscopy (AFM), subresonance tapping, and machine-leaning analysis. The surface parameters, which are typically used in engineering to describe surfaces, are used to classify cells. The method is applied to […]