无需标注数据,通过物理规律自动学习红细胞机械特性。
FlowMorph: Physics-Consistent Self-Supervision for Label-Free Single-Cell Mechanics in Microfluidic Videos
- 基于流体物理构建可微分细胞演化模型,自动生成细胞轮廓。
- 在四大数据集上实现90.5%的轮廓重合度,显著改善面积守恒和壁面违反问题。
- 仅需200个样本校准,即可高精度预测细胞弹性模量,适合临床快速检测。
红细胞的机械特性是血液病与系统性疾病的潜在生物标志物,推动了每实验处理10³至10⁶个细胞的微流控检测技术发展。然而现有方法依赖有监督分割或手工构造的时序图,且极少融合决定红细胞形变的层流斯托克斯物理规律。本文提出FlowMorph,一种物理一致的自监督框架,从短时明场微流控视频中无标签学习每个追踪红细胞的标量力学代理变量k。FlowMorph将每个细胞建模为低维参数轮廓,通过结合层流平流与曲率正则化的弹性松弛的可微分“胶囊-流”机制推进边界点,并优化包含轮廓重叠、细胞内流一致性、面积守恒、壁面约束及时间平滑性的联合损失,仅使用自动提取的轮廓与光流。在四个公开红细胞微流控数据集上,FlowMorph在含速度场的物理丰富视频中达到均值轮廓交并比0.905,显著优于纯数据驱动基线。在约1.5×10⁵个中心序列上,该标量变量k单独即可以AUC 0.863区分翻滚与坦克履带式运动。仅用200个实时变形细胞术(RT-DC)事件校准,单调映射E=g(k)在600个保留细胞上预测表观杨氏模量的平均绝对误差为0.118 MPa,且在通道几何、光学条件和帧率变化下表现稳定退化。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Mechanical properties of red blood cells (RBCs) are promising biomarkers for hematologic and systemic disease, motivating microfluidic assays that probe deformability at throughputs of $10^3$--$10^6$ cells per experiment. However, existing pipelines rely on supervised segmentation or hand-crafted kymographs and rarely encode the laminar Stokes-flow physics that governs RBC shape evolution. We introduce FlowMorph, a physics-consistent self-supervised framework that learns a label-free scalar mechanics proxy $k$ for each tracked RBC from short brightfield microfluidic videos. FlowMorph models each cell by a low-dimensional parametric contour, advances boundary points through a differentiable ''capsule-in-flow'' combining laminar advection and curvature-regularized elastic relaxation, and optimizes a loss coupling silhouette overlap, intra-cellular flow agreement, area conservation, wall constraints, and temporal smoothness, using only automatically derived silhouettes and optical flow. Across four public RBC microfluidic datasets, FlowMorph achieves a mean silhouette IoU of $0.905$ on physics-rich videos with provided velocity fields and markedly improves area conservation and wall violations over purely data-driven baselines. On $\sim 1.5\times 10^5$ centered sequences, the scalar $k$ alone separates tank-treading from flipping dynamics with an AUC of $0.863$. Using only $200$ real-time deformability cytometry (RT-DC) events for calibration, a monotone map $E=g(k)$ predicts apparent Young's modulus with a mean absolute error of $0.118$\,MPa on $600$ held-out cells and degrades gracefully under shifts in channel geometry, optics, and frame rate.
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