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The Cell RevealTM system integrates an automatic CTC enrichment and staining machine, an AI-assisted automatic CTC scanning and identification system, and an automatic cell picking machine for CTC isolation. H1975 cell line was used for the spiking test. The identification of CTCs and the isolation of target CTCs for genetic sequencing were performed from the peripheral blood of three cancer patients, including two with lung cancer and one with both lung cancer and thyroid cancer. The spiking test revealed a mean recovery rate of 81.81% even with extremely low spiking cell counts with a linear relationship between the spiked cell counts and the recovered cell counts (Y = 0.7241 \u00d7 X + 19.76, R2 = 0.9984). The three cancer patients had significantly higher TTF-1+ CTCs than healthy volunteers. All target CTCs were successfully isolated by the Cell Picker machine for a subsequent genetic analysis. Six tumor-associated mutations in four genes were detected. 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