The study of circulating cells in the blood stream is critical,as it covers many felds of biomed-icine,including immunology,cell biology,oncology,and reproductive medicine.In-viuo flowcytometry(IVFC)is a new tool to m...The study of circulating cells in the blood stream is critical,as it covers many felds of biomed-icine,including immunology,cell biology,oncology,and reproductive medicine.In-viuo flowcytometry(IVFC)is a new tool to monitor and count cells in real time for long durations in theirnative biological environment.This review describes two main categories of IVFC,ie.,labeledand label-free IVFC.It focuses on label-free IVFC and introduces its technological developmentand related biological applications.Because cell recognition is the basis of flow cytometrycounting,this review also describes various methods for the classification of unlabeled cells,including the latest machine learning-based technologies.展开更多
基金This work was supported by the Key-Area Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province(2020B1111040001)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(62075042,62205060,and 61805038)+1 种基金the Research Fund of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Joint Laboratory for Intelligent Micro-Nano Optoelectronic Technology(2020B1212030010)Special Fund for Science and Technology Innovation Cultivation of Guangdong University Students(No.pdjh2022b0543).
文摘The study of circulating cells in the blood stream is critical,as it covers many felds of biomed-icine,including immunology,cell biology,oncology,and reproductive medicine.In-viuo flowcytometry(IVFC)is a new tool to monitor and count cells in real time for long durations in theirnative biological environment.This review describes two main categories of IVFC,ie.,labeledand label-free IVFC.It focuses on label-free IVFC and introduces its technological developmentand related biological applications.Because cell recognition is the basis of flow cytometrycounting,this review also describes various methods for the classification of unlabeled cells,including the latest machine learning-based technologies.