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Mechanobiology of Disease

Poster Abstracts

66

67-POS

Board 67

Nuclear Mechanical Biomarkers for Cancer Diagnosis

Aneesh R. Sathe

1

, Karthik Damodaran

1

, Caroline Uhler

2

, Shivashankar G.V.

1,3

.

1

National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore,

2

Massachusetts Institute of

Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA,

3

Italian Foundation for Cancer Research (FIRC), Milan,

Italy.

Current diagnosis for cancer employ a number of nuclear morphometric measures. While these

approaches have provided insights into late stage disease diagnosis, early diagnosis has been a

major challenge. Picking up subtle changes in nuclear morphometrics at an early stage is

important for better prognosis and therapeutic intervention. In this study we use single cell

imaging methods combined with machine learning to quantitatively detect nuclear morphometric

features between normal and cancer cell lines. High throughput widefield images of DAPI

stained nuclei are used to extract around 2000 physical and texture features as biomarkers.

Linear discriminant analysis (LDA) of these biomarkers was able to discriminate between

normal and breast cancer cell lines. In addition, LDA analysis discriminated fibrocystic (MCF

10A) and metastatic (MCF7 and MDA-MB-231) human breast cancer cell lines with high

accuracy. Further we describe a compressive loading assay of single cells to amplify the

differentiability of these cell types based on structural memory in chromatin condensation states.

Finally using sparse LDA we identify the most predictive biomarkers which can be used as

diagnostic reporters of altered nuclear architecture. Our methodologies collectively provide a

simple and robust platform for potential applications in early disease diagnostics.