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Glycolysis and oxidative phosphorylation of MCF7 breast cancer cells were chemically inhibited with 2-deoxy-d-glucose and sodium cyanide, respectively; and fluorescence lifetime images of NAD(P)H and FAD were obtained using a multiphoton microscope.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Results:<\/jats:bold> Machine learning algorithms built from either the extracted lifetime values or phasor coordinates predict MCF7 metabolism with a high accuracy (\u223c88%). Similarly, fluorescence lifetime images of M0, M1, and M2 macrophages were acquired and analyzed by decay fitting and phasor analysis. Machine learning models trained with features from curve fitting discriminate different macrophage phenotypes with improved performance over models trained using only phasor coordinates.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Discussion:<\/jats:bold> Altogether, the results demonstrate that both curve fitting and phasor analysis of autofluorescence lifetime images can be used in machine learning models for classification of cell phenotype from the lifetime data.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3389\/fbinf.2023.1210157","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,6,30]],"date-time":"2023-06-30T03:11:31Z","timestamp":1688094691000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":11,"title":["Comparison of phasor analysis and biexponential decay curve fitting of autofluorescence lifetime imaging data for machine learning prediction of cellular phenotypes"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"3","author":[{"given":"Linghao","family":"Hu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Blanche","family":"Ter Hofstede","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Dhavan","family":"Sharma","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Feng","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Alex J.","family":"Walsh","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,6,29]]},"reference":[{"key":"B1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"10451","DOI":"10.1038\/s41598-017-10856-3","article-title":"Investigation of mitochondrial metabolic response to doxorubicin in prostate cancer cells: An NADH, FAD and tryptophan FLIM assay","volume":"7","author":"Alam","year":"2017","journal-title":"Sci. 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