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Accurately assessing cell viability and morphological properties within 3D bioprinted hydrogel scaffolds is essential for tissue engineering but remains challenging due to the limitations of existing invasive and threshold-based methods. We present a computational toolbox that automates cell viability analysis and quantifies key properties such as elongation, flatness, and surface roughness. This framework integrates optical coherence tomography (OCT) with deep learning-based segmentation, achieving a mean segmentation precision of 88.96%. By leveraging OCT’s high-resolution imaging with deep learning-based segmentation, our novel approach enables non-invasive, quantitative analysis, which can advance rapid monitoring of 3D cell cultures for regenerative medicine and biomaterial research.
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Frequency-aware optical coherence tomography image super-resolution via conditional generative adversarial neural network
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has stimulated a wide range of medical image-based diagnosis and treatment in fields such as cardiology and ophthalmology. Such applications can be further facilitated by deep learning-based super-resolution technology, which improves the capability of resolving morphological structures. However, existing deep learning-based method only focuses on spatial distribution and disregards frequency fidelity in image reconstruction, leading to a frequency bias. To overcome this limitation, we propose a frequency-aware super-resolution framework that integrates three critical frequency-based modules (i.e., frequency transformation, frequency skip connection, and frequency alignment) and frequency-based loss function into a conditional generative adversarial network (cGAN). We conducted a large-scale quantitative study from an existing coronary OCT dataset to demonstrate the superiority of our proposed framework over existing deep learning frameworks. In addition, we confirmed the generalizability of our framework by applying it to fish corneal images and rat retinal images, demonstrating its capability to super-resolve morphological details in eye imaging.
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- PAR ID:
- 10461900
- Publisher / Repository:
- Optical Society of America
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Biomedical Optics Express
- Volume:
- 14
- Issue:
- 10
- ISSN:
- 2156-7085
- Format(s):
- Medium: X Size: Article No. 5148
- Size(s):
- Article No. 5148
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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