English
Related papers

Related papers: Dilution with Digital Microfluidic Biochips: How U…

200 papers

Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD) provides an effective distribution-level correction for few-step generation, while relying on an auxiliary fake-score network to track the evolving generative distribution. Recent work combines…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Youngjoong Kim , Deokyeong Lee , Jaesik Park

Existing brain tumor segmentation methods usually utilize multiple Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) modalities in brain tumor images for segmentation, which can achieve better segmentation performance. However, in clinical applications,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Ming Kang , Fung Fung Ting , Shier Nee Saw , Raphaël C. -W. Phan , Zongyuan Ge , Chee-Ming Ting

Platelet-enriched plasma and red blood cells (RBC) are needed in the treatment of blood-related diseases, including anaemia and blood cancer. These essential components must be separated from blood in well-designed experimental setups. If…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-16 Rishi Kumar , Indranil Saha Dalal , K. Muralidhar

Sampling from unnormalized target distributions is a fundamental yet challenging task in machine learning and statistics. Existing sampling algorithms typically require many iterative steps to produce high-quality samples, leading to high…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-27 Pascal Jutras-Dube , Jiaru Zhang , Ziran Wang , Ruqi Zhang

This work explores a new approach for optimization in the field of microfluidics, using the combination of CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics), and Machine Learning techniques. The objective of this combination is to enable global…

Discrete diffusion models (DDMs) have shown powerful generation ability for discrete data modalities like text and molecules. However, their practical application is hindered by inefficient sampling, requiring a large number of sampling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Feiyang Fu , Tongxian Guo , Zhaoqiang Liu

In this work, we introduce the novel technique of in-chip drop on demand, which consists in dispensing picoliter to nanoliter drops on demand directly in the liquid-filled channels of a polymer microfluidic chip, at frequencies up to 2.5…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2009-12-16 Jie Xu , Daniel Attinger

The efficiency of exact simulation methods for the reaction-diffusion master equation (RDME) is severely limited by the large number of diffusion events if the mesh is fine or if diffusion constants are large. Furthermore, inherent…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-06-15 Andreas Hellander , Michael Lawson , Brian Drawert , Linda Petzold

Sampling molecular conformations from the Boltzmann distribution is essential for computational chemistry, but iterative diffusion methods are prohibitively slow. Drifting Models offer one-step generation, yet their equilibrium matches the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Pipi Hu

Previous devices to separate cells by the characteristic force they experience due to dielectrophoresis, which depends on the size and electric properties of the particle, were limited by the flow rates and particle concentrations…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-09-08 Ngoc-Duy Dinh , Dinh-Tuan Phan

The generation of microdroplets via segmentation in microfluidic devices is of interest in many applications, from biochemical to pharmaceutical. This technique permits indeed much higher control on the droplet size, uniformity and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-15 Alessio Innocenti , Andrea Poggi , Simone Camarri , Maria Vittoria Salvetti

Diffusion models (DMs) have established themselves as the state-of-the-art generative modeling approach in the visual domain and beyond. A crucial drawback of DMs is their slow sampling speed, relying on many sequential function evaluations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Amirmojtaba Sabour , Sanja Fidler , Karsten Kreis

Microfluidic channels are integral to biomedical technology and process engineering, offering versatility in handling fluids with complex properties, often a combination of viscous and elastic attributes. Despite significant advancements in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-29 Sampad Laha , Siddhartha Mukherjee , Suman Chakraborty

Microfluidics, the study of fluids in microscopic channels, has led to important advances in fields as diverse as microelectronics, biotechnology and chemistry. Microfluidic research is primarily based on the use of microfluidic chips,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-15 Jorge Vicente Martinez , Edgar Ramirez-Laboreo , Pablo Calderon Gil

Virtual distillation is an error-mitigation technique that reduces quantum-computation errors without assuming the noise type. In scenarios where the user of a quantum circuit is required to additionally employ peripherals, such as delay…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-04 Yong Siah Teo , Seongwook Shin , Hyukgun Kwon , Seok-Hyung Lee , Hyunseok Jeong

Efficient sampling from un-normalized target distributions is pivotal in scientific computing and machine learning. While neural samplers have demonstrated potential with a special emphasis on sampling efficiency, existing neural implicit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Weijian Luo , Wei Deng

Quantitative measurement of crystals in high-resolution images allows for important insights into underlying material characteristics. Deep learning has shown great progress in vision-based automatic crystal size measurement, but current…

Droplet microfluidics, in which micro-droplets serve as individual reactors, has enabled a wide range of high-throughput biochemical processes. Unlike solid wells typically used in current biochemical assays, droplets are subject to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-06-03 Ya Gai , Andrea Montessori , Sauro Succi , Sindy K. Y. Tang

Microfluidic technology has emerged as a powerful tool for studying complex biological processes with enhanced precision and control. A microfluidic chip was designed to emulate human-like microvascular networks with precise control over…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-02-18 Shobhit Das , Shilpi Pandey , Oliver Hayden

The design of strategies to generate efficient mixing is crucial for a variety of applications, particularly digital microfluidic devices that use small "discrete" fluid volumes (droplets) as fluid carriers and microreactors. In recent…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2008-09-03 R. Chabreyrie , D. Vainchtein , C. Chandre , P. Singh , N. Aubry