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FlowLearn: fast and precise identification and quality checking of cell populations in flow cytometry.


ABSTRACT: Motivation:Identification of cell populations in flow cytometry is a critical part of the analysis and lays the groundwork for many applications and research discovery. The current paradigm of manual analysis is time consuming and subjective. A common goal of users is to replace manual analysis with automated methods that replicate their results. Supervised tools provide the best performance in such a use case, however they require fine parameterization to obtain the best results. Hence, there is a strong need for methods that are fast to setup, accurate and interpretable. Results:flowLearn is a semi-supervised approach for the quality-checked identification of cell populations. Using a very small number of manually gated samples, through density alignments it is able to predict gates on other samples with high accuracy and speed. On two state-of-the-art datasets, our tool achieves median(F1)-measures exceeding 0.99 for 31%, and 0.90 for 80% of all analyzed populations. Furthermore, users can directly interpret and adjust automated gates on new sample files to iteratively improve the initial training. Availability and implementation:FlowLearn is available as an R package on https://github.com/mlux86/flowLearn. Evaluation data is publicly available online. Details can be found in the Supplementary Material. Supplementary information:Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

SUBMITTER: Lux M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6022609 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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flowLearn: fast and precise identification and quality checking of cell populations in flow cytometry.

Lux Markus M   Brinkman Ryan Remy RR   Chauve Cedric C   Laing Adam A   Lorenc Anna A   Abeler-Dörner Lucie L   Hammer Barbara B  

Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) 20180701 13


<h4>Motivation</h4>Identification of cell populations in flow cytometry is a critical part of the analysis and lays the groundwork for many applications and research discovery. The current paradigm of manual analysis is time consuming and subjective. A common goal of users is to replace manual analysis with automated methods that replicate their results. Supervised tools provide the best performance in such a use case, however they require fine parameterization to obtain the best results. Hence,  ...[more]

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