@article{fdi:010087700, title = {{C}lassification of red cell dynamics with convolutional and recurrent neural networks : a sickle cell disease case study}, author = {{D}arrin, {M}. and {S}amudre, {A}. and {S}ahun, {M}. and {A}twell, {S}. and {B}adens, {C}. and {C}harrier, {A}. and {H}elfer, {E}. and {V}iallat, {A}. and {C}ohen-{A}ddad, {V}. and {G}iffard-{R}oisin, {S}ophie}, editor = {}, language = {{ENG}}, abstract = {{T}he fraction of red blood cells adopting a specific motion under low shear flow is a promising inexpensive marker for monitoring the clinical status of patients with sickle cell disease. {I}ts high-throughput measurement relies on the video analysis of thousands of cell motions for each blood sample to eliminate a large majority of unreliable samples (out of focus or overlapping cells) and discriminate between tank-treading and flipping motion, characterizing highly and poorly deformable cells respectively. {M}oreover, these videos are of different durations (from 6 to more than 100 frames). {W}e present a two-stage end-to-end machine learning pipeline able to automatically classify cell motions in videos with a high class imbalance. {B}y extending, comparing, and combining two state-of-the-art methods, a convolutional neural network ({CNN}) model and a recurrent {CNN}, we are able to automatically discard 97% of the unreliable cell sequences (first stage) and classify highly and poorly deformable red cell sequences with 97% accuracy and an {F}1-score of 0.94 (second stage). {D}ataset and codes are publicly released for the community.}, keywords = {}, booktitle = {}, journal = {{S}cientific {R}eports - {N}ature}, volume = {13}, numero = {1}, pages = {[12 ]}, ISSN = {2045-2322}, year = {2023}, DOI = {10.1038/s41598-023-27718-w}, URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010087700}, }