Optical Imaging Techniques Targeting Biological Applications
A special issue of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732). This special issue belongs to the section "New Applications Enabled by Photonics Technologies and Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2023) | Viewed by 1595
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Interests: image segmentation; image classification; medical image analysis; resource constraint neural networks; deep neural networks
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Dear Colleagues,
Human health monitoring technologies have recently been developing at a rapid and exciting rate. Technological improvements in hardware and software systems have enabled new approaches for detecting, monitoring, and tracing health-related biomarkers in clinical, pre-clinical, and at-home settings. These changes in the available technology have improved healthcare efficacy through allowing earlier disease identification, novel treatment options, and quantified self-monitoring.
The recent rise in computer power and optical imaging technology has enabled the creation of new analysis approaches that make use of well-established modalities from several biomedical applications. Machine learning and image-processing algorithms, for example, have grown in prevalence across various parts of biological imaging for the recognition of complicated patterns. Similarly, developments in hardware have aided in the development of health-monitoring devices in difficult circumstances, such as ambulatory monitoring. In the aim of bringing together various aspects of health monitoring in this Special Issue, authors are invited to submit papers describing novel imaging and/or sensing methods with pre-clinical/clinical applications. The core themes of this topic include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Advances in image analysis for disease detection and/or monitoring, including, but not limited to, Fundus, CT, X-ray, MRI, and ultrasound;
- Machine learning methods for biomedical image analysis;
- Machine learning methods for biomedical image segmentation;
- Advances in multimodal biomedical systems for diagnosis, treatment, and/or prevention;
- Advances in the investigation of biological tissues, including non-computational innovations and developments, such as photoacoustic, OCT, fluorescence microscopy, elastography, etc.
Dr. Tariq Khan
Guest Editor
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