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Record W4415882823 · doi:10.1038/s41598-025-16002-8

Label-free estimation of regulatory T cell activation markers using Raman spectroscopy with machine learning

2025· article· en· W4415882823 on OpenAlexafffund
Aria Azari-Pour, Ali Chamkalani, Shreyas Rangan, Katherine N. MacDonald, Megan K. Levings, H. Georg Schulze, James M. Piret, R. Bhushan Gopaluni

Bibliographic record

VenueScientific Reports · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicSpectroscopy Techniques in Biomedical and Chemical Research
Canadian institutionsVancouver Island UniversityBC Children's HospitalCanada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences CentreUniversity of British Columbia
FundersBiotalent CanadaCanadian Institutes of Health ResearchNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaUniversity of British ColumbiaUniversities Space Research AssociationBC Children's Hospital
KeywordsRaman spectroscopyT cellProcess (computing)CellRegulatory T cellState (computer science)

Abstract

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Regulatory T cells are a class of T lymphocytes which respond to activation signals by expanding their cell numbers, and whose culturing and expansion are of significant clinical interest. Cellular activation states are used to inform process control decisions such as restimulation and can be probed with experimental measurements of cell surface markers. However, these measurements are expensive, time-consuming, and invasive, and an urgent need exists for devising a non-invasive method for activation state monitoring that could be deployed on-line. Raman spectroscopy is a label-free and information-rich optical method that, when coupled to data analytical methods, can ameliorate these experimental issues. In this work, we quantitatively estimated experimental measurements of regulatory T cell activation markers with high accuracy. We simulated a clinical manufacturing setting by building an [Formula: see text]-regularized least-squares model with spectroscopic data from six regulatory T cell donors. Then, we validated the constructed model by accurately estimating different experimental measurements of biomarker values from two external donors, unseen by the model. We have devised a robust program to effectively estimate the activation state of regulatory T cells. We anticipate our method to be used with on-line Raman probes integrated into cell manufacturing devices for label-free monitoring of these processes.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.003
Threshold uncertainty score0.006

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.007
GPT teacher head0.292
Teacher spread0.285 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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