Distinguishing cancerous from non-cancerous cells through analysis of electrical noise

Details Distinguishing cancerous from non-cancerous cells through analysis of electrical noise Distinguishing cancerous from non-cancerous cells through analysis of electrical noise

2007-07-28

arxiv.org/abs/0707.4244v1

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Cell Behavior

8 pages, 4 figures; submitted to PRE

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.76.041908

Since 1984, electric cell-substrate impedance sensing (ECIS) has been used to monitor cell behavior in tissue culture and has proven sensitive to cell morphological changes and cell motility. We have taken ECIS measurements on several cultures of non-cancerous (HOSE) and cancerous (SKOV) human ovarian surface epithelial cells. By analyzing the noise in real and imaginary electrical impedance, we demonstrate that it is possible to distinguish the two cell types purely from signatures of their electrical noise. Our measures include power-spectral exponents, Hurst and detrended fluctuation analysis, and estimates of correlation time; principal-component analysis combines all the measures. The noise from both cancerous and non-cancerous cultures shows correlations on many time scales, but these correlations are stronger for the non-cancerous cells.

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