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Red blood cells (RBCs) from the cord blood of newborn infants have distinctive functions for fetal and infant development. To systematically investigate the biophysical characteristics of individual cord RBCs in newborn infants, a…

Digital holographic microscopy is a thriving imaging modality that attracted considerable research interest in quantitative biological cell imaging due to its ability to not only create excellent label-free contrast, but also supply…

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Label-free approaches are attractive in cytological imaging due to their flexibility and cost efficiency. They are supported by machine learning methods, which, despite the lack of labeling and the associated lower contrast, can classify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Stefan Röhrl , Johannes Groll , Manuel Lengl , Simon Schumann , Christian Klenk , Dominik Heim , Martin Knopp , Oliver Hayden , Klaus Diepold

We present a non-invasive, label-free method of imaging blood cells flowing through human capillaries in vivo using oblique back-illumination capillaroscopy (OBC). Green light illumination allows simultaneous phase and absorption contrast,…

Biological Physics · Physics 2020-01-20 Gregory N. McKay , Nela Mohan , Nicholas J. Durr

Simultaneous imaging of fluorescence-labeled and label-free phase objects in the same sample provides distinct and complementary information. Most multimodal fluorescence-phase imaging operates in transmission mode, capturing fluorescence…

Optics · Physics 2024-08-20 Renzhi He , Yucheng Li , Junjie Chen , Yi Xue

Automated white blood cell (WBC) classification is essential for scalable leukaemia screening. However, real-world deployment is challenged by domain shifts caused by staining protocols, scanner characteristics, and inter-laboratory…

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Wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE) is a non-invasive method for visualizing the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, crucial for diagnosing GI tract diseases. However, interpreting WCE results can be time-consuming and tiring. Existing studies have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-13 Haejin Lee , Jeongwoo Ju , Jonghyuck Lee , Yeoun Joo Lee , Heechul Jung

Computer-aided methods for analyzing white blood cells (WBC) have become widely popular due to the complexity of the manual process. Recent works have shown highly accurate segmentation and detection of white blood cells from microscopic…

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White blood cell (WBC) classification is fundamental for hematology applications such as infection assessment, leukemia screening, and treatment monitoring. However, real-world WBC datasets present substantial appearance variations caused…

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Despite fluorescent cell-labelling being widely employed in biomedical studies, some of its drawbacks are inevitable, with unsuitable fluorescent probes or probes inducing a functional change being the main limitations. Consequently, the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-03-03 Yan Ge , Philipp Rosendahl , Claudio Durán , Nicole Töpfner , Sara Ciucci , Jochen Guck , Carlo Vittorio Cannistraci

Many essential cellular functions depend on the viscoelastic properties of the cytoplasm. While techniques such as optical tweezers and atomic force microscopy can measure these properties, their reliance on localized probes prevents…

Rapid, comprehensive, and accurate cell phenotyping without compromising viability, is crucial to many important biomedical applications, including stem-cell therapy, drug screening, and liquid biopsy. Typical image cytometry methods…

We present Defocusing Microscopy (DM), a bright-field optical microscopy technique able to perform total 3D imaging of transparent objects. By total 3D imaging we mean the determination of the actual shapes of the upper and lower surfaces…

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Label-free microscopy exploits light scattering to obtain a three-dimensional image of biological tissues. However, light propagation is affected by aberrations and multiple scattering, which drastically degrade the image quality and limit…

The flow dynamics of red blood cells in vivo in blood capillaries and in vitro in microfluidic channels is complex. Cells can obtain differnet shapes such as discoid, parachute, slipper-like shapes and various intermediate states depending…

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Accurate classification of blood cells plays a key role in improving automated blood analysis for both medical and veterinary applications. This work presents a two-stage deep clustering method for classifying blood cells from…

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Human immune system contains white blood cells (WBC) that are good indicator of many diseases like bacterial infections, AIDS, cancer, spleen, etc. White blood cells have been sub classified into four types: monocytes, lymphocytes,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-15 Rabia Asghar , Arslan Shaukat , Usman Akram , Rimsha Tariq

Optical diffraction tomography (ODT) is a powerful non-invasive 3D imaging technique, but its combination with broadband light sources is difficult. In this study, we introduce ultrabroadband ODT, covering over 150 nm of visible spectral…

Ultrasound vascular imaging is limited by acoustic diffraction, restricting visualization of microvessels essential for understanding organ function and disease. Label-free super-resolution methods exploiting endogenous red blood cells have…

Optical diffraction tomography (ODT) provides three-dimensional refractive index (RI) tomograms of a transparent microscopic object. However, because of the finite numerical aperture of objective lenses, ODT has the limited access to…

Optics · Physics 2017-11-22 Moosung Lee , Seungwoo Shin , YongKeun Park