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Quantum imaging with undetected photons is a recently introduced technique that goes significantly beyond what was previously possible. In this technique, images are formed without detecting the light that interacted with the object that is…

Super-resolution structured illumination microscopy (SR-SIM) is a widely used technique for enhancing the resolution of fluorescence imaging beyond the diffraction limit. Most existing SR-SIM methods rely on Moir\'e effect-based physical…

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Fundamental understanding of biological pathways requires minimally invasive nanoscopic optical resolution imaging. Many approaches to high-resolution imaging rely on localization of single emitters, such as fluorescent molecule or quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-05 Shuo Li , Wenchao Li , Vladislav V. Yakovlev , Allison Kealy , Andrew D. Greentree

Existing super-resolution methods of optical imaging hold a solid place as an application in natural sciences, but many new developments allow for beating the diffraction limit in a more subtle way. One of the recently explored strategies…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-08 Mateusz Mazelanik , Adam Leszczyński , Michał Parniak

We report a new coherent imaging technique, termed ptychographic structured modulation (PSM), for quantitative super-resolution microscopy. In this technique, we place a thin diffuser (i.e., a scattering lens) in between the sample and the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-26 Pengming Song , Shaowei Jiang , He Zhang , Zichao Bian , Chengfei Guo , Kazunori Hoshino , Guoan Zheng

Image processing is popular in our daily life because of the need to extract essential information from our 3D world, including a variety of applications in widely separated fields like bio-medicine, economics, entertainment, and industry.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-04 Alok Anand , Meizhong Lyu , Prabh Simran Baweja , Vinay Patil

The optical resolution of a digital camera is one of its most crucial parameters with broad relevance for consumer electronics, surveillance systems, remote sensing, or medical imaging. However, resolution is physically limited by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Thomas Köhler

Characterizing complex quantum systems is a vital task in quantum information science. Quantum tomography, the standard tool used for this purpose, uses a well-designed measurement record to reconstruct quantum states and processes. It is,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-10 Amir Kalev , Robert L. Kosut , Ivan H. Deutsch

A widely tested approach to overcoming the diffraction limit in microscopy without disturbing the sample relies on substituting widefield sample illumination with a structured light beam. This gives rise to confocal, image-scanning and…

Optics · Physics 2024-06-03 Alexander Duplinskiy , Jernej Frank , Kaden Bearne , A. I. Lvovsky

Two-photon interference, a quantum phenomenon arising from the principle of indistinguishability, is a powerful tool for quantum state engineering and plays a fundamental role in various quantum technologies. These technologies demand…

Confocal microscopy, a critical advancement in optical imaging, is widely applied because of its excellent anti-noise ability. However, it has low imaging efficiency and can cause phototoxicity. Optical-sectioning structured illumination…

Optics · Physics 2024-05-27 Weishuai Zhou , Manhong Yao , Xi Lin , Quan Yu , Junzheng Peng , Jingang Zhong

One of the most surprising consequences of quantum mechanics is the entanglement of two or more distant particles. Although questions regarding fundamental issues of quantum theory still exist, quantum entanglement has started to play…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-07-03 Yanhua Shih

While electron microscopy offers crucial atomic-resolution insights into structure-property relationships, radiation damage severely limits its use on beam-sensitive materials like proteins and 2D materials. To overcome this challenge, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Zifei Wang , Zian Mao , Xiaoya He , Xi Huang , Haoran Zhang , Chun Cheng , Shufen Chu , Tingzheng Hou , Xiaoqin Zeng , Yujun Xie

This paper proposes a quantum computing-based algorithm to solve the single image super-resolution (SISR) problem. One of the well-known classical approaches for SISR relies on the well-established patch-wise sparse modeling of the problem.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Han Yao Choong , Suryansh Kumar , Luc Van Gool

Structured illumination microscopy (SIM) improves resolution by down-modulating high-frequency information of an object to fit within the passband of the optical system. Generally, the reconstruction process requires prior knowledge of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-13 Li-Hao Yeh , Lei Tian , Laura Waller

Real world image super-resolution (Real-ISR) often leverages the powerful generative priors of text-to-image diffusion models by regularizing the output to lie on their learned manifold. However, existing methods often overlook the…

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Breast cancer remains the leading cause of cancer-related mortality among women worldwide, necessitating the meticulous examination of mammograms by radiologists to characterize abnormal lesions. This manual process demands high accuracy…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-25 Laia Domingo , Mahdi Chehimi

Fundamental differences between natural and medical images have recently favored the use of self-supervised learning (SSL) over ImageNet transfer learning for medical image applications. Differences between image types are primarily due to…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-07-13 Lambert T. Leong , Michael C. Wong , Yannik Glaser , Thomas Wolfgruber , Steven B. Heymsfield , Peter Sadowski , John A. Shepherd

We propose a hybrid quantum approach to threshold and binarize a grayscale image through unsharp measurements (UM) relying on image histogram. Generally, the histograms are characterized by multiple overlapping normal distributions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-02 Ayan Barui , Mayukha Pal , Prasanta K. Panigrahi

As one of important analysis tools, microscopes with high spatial resolution are indispensable for scientific research and medical diagnosis, and much attention is always focused on the improvement of resolution. Over the past decade, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-04-04 Pengli Zhang , Wenlin Gong , Xia Shen , Dajie Huang , Shensheng Han