For cancer patients, treatment selection fundamentally relies on staging, with "understaging" considered a common problem. Imaging modalities that can complement conventional white-light laparoscopy are need...
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For cancer patients, treatment selection fundamentally relies on staging, with "understaging" considered a common problem. Imaging modalities that can complement conventional white-light laparoscopy are needed to detect more accurately small metastatic lesions in patients undergoing operative cancer care. Biopsies from healthy parietal peritoneum and ovarian peritoneal metastases obtained from 8 patients were imaged employing a two-photon laser scanning microscope to generate collagen-second harmonic generation (SHG) and fluorescence images at 755 nm and 900 nm excitation and 460 +/- 20 nm and 525 +/- 25 nm emission. Forty-one images were analyzed by automated image processing algorithms and statistical textural analysis techniques, namely gray level co-occurrence matrices. Two textural features (contrast and correlation) were employed to describe the spatial intensity variations within the captured images and outcomes were used for discriminant analysis. We found that healthy tissues displayed large variations in contrast and correlation features as a function of distance, corresponding to repetitive, increased local intensity fluctuations. Metastatic tissue images exhibited decreased contrast and correlation related values, representing more uniform intensity patterns and smaller fibers, indicating the destruction of the healthy stroma by the cancerous infiltration. The textural outcomes resulted in high classification accuracy as evaluated quantitatively by discriminant analysis. (C) 2019 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement
Optical wireless communication (OWC) has been presented as a promising candidate for future space-air-ground-ocean-integrated communication. However, the OWC is quite sensitive to the variation of the channel transmis...
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Optical wireless communication (OWC) has been presented as a promising candidate for future space-air-ground-ocean-integrated communication. However, the OWC is quite sensitive to the variation of the channel transmission characteristics. The light beam absorption and the scattering in the transmission media affect not only the channel feature, but also the imaging quality. Thus, there is an inherent relationship between the OWC performance and the optical imaging quality. Based on this consideration we firstly present the idea of introducing computer vision mechanisms into the OWC systems, and then propose a computer vision-based multi-domain cooperative adjustment (CV-MDCA) mechanism's functional modules to realize the intelligent adaptive transmission in OWC systems. The CV-MDCA mechanism arc specifically designed, with the emphasis on how to quantitatively determine the exact on-line channel quality from the captured images by using effective computer vision schemes. Two groups of experiments, the indoor-simulated underwater visible light communication and the outdoor-practical atmospheric free-space optics, arc implemented in order to evaluate the presented CV-MDCA mechanism's performance. The results not only validate the feasibility to determine the channel quality, according to the captured channel images, but also reveal the presented three computer vision-based criteria's limitations. (C) 2019 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement
We investigate the depth imaging of objects through various densities of different obscurants (water fog. glycol-based vapor, and incendiary smoke) using a time-correlated single-photon detection system which had an o...
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We investigate the depth imaging of objects through various densities of different obscurants (water fog. glycol-based vapor, and incendiary smoke) using a time-correlated single-photon detection system which had an operating wavelength of 1550 nm and an average optical output power of approximately 1.5 mW. It consisted of a monostatic scanning transceiver unit used in conjunction with a picosecond laser source and an individual Peltier-cooled InGaAs/InP single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) detector. We acquired depth and intensity data of targets imaged through distances of up to 24 meters for the different obscurants. We compare several statistical algorithms which reconstruct both the depth and intensity images for short data acquisition times, including very low signal returns in the photon-starved regime. (C) Published by The Optical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
We report a new quantitative measurement method of polarization direction based on the polarization axis finder (PAF) and digital imageprocessing. The PAF acts as an azimuthal analyzer to determine the polarization d...
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We report a new quantitative measurement method of polarization direction based on the polarization axis finder (PAF) and digital imageprocessing. The PAF acts as an azimuthal analyzer to determine the polarization direction of linearly polarized light and form an "hourglass" intensity pattern, and a digital camera is employed to record the pattern, and then the lightwave's polarization direction is obtained accurately by analyzing the pattern with a specially designed digital imageprocessing algorithm. The quantitative measuring experiments have been carried out by validating the standard quartz plates with known rotation angles, and the measurement accuracy has reached 0.01 degrees. (C) 2018 Optical Society of America
Neuronal morphology, long-distance transport and signalling critically depend on the organization of microtubules in the cytoskeleton. Second harmonic generation (SHG) imaging has been recognized as a potentially powe...
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Neuronal morphology, long-distance transport and signalling critically depend on the organization of microtubules in the cytoskeleton. Second harmonic generation (SHG) imaging has been recognized as a potentially powerful tool for in situ label-free neuroimaging with specific sensitivity to microtubules. We study here the structural organization of microtubules in living neurons using a wide-field multiphoton microscope that performs 3D imaging using a structured illumination. This microscope allows label-free high throughput imaging of living mammalian neurons. We show that we can image structural correlations by taking advantage of the structured illumination and the coherence of the emitted light. The result allows us to study the microtubule organization throughout the development of the neuron and to differentiate between the regions of the cytoskeleton in the matured neuron. (C) 2018 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement
Optical cell manipulation has become increasingly valuable in cell-based assays. In this paper, we demonstrate the translational and rotational manipulation of filamentous cells using multiple cooperative microrobots ...
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Optical cell manipulation has become increasingly valuable in cell-based assays. In this paper, we demonstrate the translational and rotational manipulation of filamentous cells using multiple cooperative microrobots automatically driven by holographic optical tweezers. The photodamage of the cells due to direct irradiation of the laser beam can be effectively avoided. The proposed method will enable fruitful biomedical applications where precise cell manipulation and less photodamage are required. (C) 2019 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement
In color-multiplexed optical camera communications (OCC) systems, data acquisition is restricted by the imageprocessing algorithm capability for fast source recognition, region-of-interest (ROI) detection and trackin...
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In color-multiplexed optical camera communications (OCC) systems, data acquisition is restricted by the imageprocessing algorithm capability for fast source recognition, region-of-interest (ROI) detection and tracking, packet synchronization within ROI, estimation of inter-channel interference and threshold computation. In this work, a novel modulation scheme for a practical RGB-LED-based OCC system is presented. The four above-described tasks are held simultaneously. Using confined spatial correlation of well-defined reference signals within the frame's color channels is possible to obtain a fully operating link with low computational complexity algorithms. Prior channel adaptation also grants a substantial increase in the attainable data rate, making the system more robust to interferences. (c) 2019 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement
We experimentally demonstrate a femtosecond laser enabled selective micro-holes drilling technique on the multicore-fiber facet. The precise position of individual cores at the seven-core fiber facet is initially lock...
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We experimentally demonstrate a femtosecond laser enabled selective micro-holes drilling technique on the multicore-fiber facet. The precise position of individual cores at the seven-core fiber facet is initially locked by the imageprocessing algorithm, and then six micro-holes are successfully fabricated after the pulse energy of femtosecond laser is optimized. Meanwhile, the use of fabricated seven-core fiber for the application of reflective intensity-modulated fiber optics displacement sensor (RIM-FODS) is comprehensively investigated. By using the beam propagation method (BPM), we theoretically investigate the effect of micro-hole depth on the RIM-FODS performance, in terms of both dead zone and measurement range. We identify that, with the increase of micro-hole depth, the dead zone range can be substantially reduced at the expense of measurement range reduction. However, multiple micro-holes with a successive depth difference can overcome such problem. When the micro-holes with depths of 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 mu m are fabricated on the seven-core fiber facet, and the dead zone range can be substantially reduced from 150 mu m to 20 mu m, together with an extension of measurement range from 250 mu m to 400 mu m. (C) 2019 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement
Endoscopic imaging allows longitudinal observation of epithelial pathologies in tubular organs throughout the body. However, the imaging and optical diagnosis of tubular biostructures such as small animal models and s...
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Endoscopic imaging allows longitudinal observation of epithelial pathologies in tubular organs throughout the body. However, the imaging and optical diagnosis of tubular biostructures such as small animal models and small pediatric organs require appropriately miniaturized devices. A miniaturized catadioptric flexible side-view endoscope is proposed with omnidirectional field of view (FOV) in the transverse direction and sub-nun-scale feature resolution. The FOV in the longitudinal direction is 50 degrees. images are unwrapped and stitched together to form composite images of the target by two different algorithms, revealing a composite FOV of more than 3.5 cm x 360 degrees. The endoscope is well suited for minimally invasive rapid monitoring of thin tubular organs in pediatric patients, as well as for imaging of small animal disease models at near-cellular resolution. (C) 2019 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement
Due to the defects of optical systems, image sensors, and imperfect algorithms for image acquisition, compression, and restoration, color artifacts often appear in images obtained by imaging devices such as digital ca...
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Due to the defects of optical systems, image sensors, and imperfect algorithms for image acquisition, compression, and restoration, color artifacts often appear in images obtained by imaging devices such as digital cameras and scanners. Moreover, color artifacts are difficult to eliminate because of technical limitations, even in some mature commercial cameras. On the basis of red, green, and blue (RGB) intersection (RGBI), a correction method for color artifacts is proposed in this paper, where the RGB intersection-based method can effectively detect various types of color artifacts. Also, by combining the object information with weighted bilinear interpolation, the continuity of the image is kept while restoring the real color. Experiments demonstrate that the RGBI method, which is applicable to all color images, can eliminate various types of color artifacts with accurate detection and less artifact residue, even if the image has severe color distortion or the areas of the color artifacts are small and discrete. (C) 2019 Optical Society of America
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