Label-free digital brightfield analysis of nucleic acid amplification

    公开(公告)号:US11450121B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-20

    申请号:US16019421

    申请日:2018-06-26

    Abstract: An optical readout method for detecting a precipitate (e.g., a precipitate generated from the LAMP reaction) contained within a droplet includes generating a plurality of droplets, at least some which have a precipitate contained therein. The droplets are imaged using a brightfield imaging device. The image is subject to image processing using image processing software executed on a computing device. Image processing isolates individual droplets in the image and performs feature detection within the isolated droplets. Keypoints and information related thereto are extracted from the detected features within the isolated droplets. The keypoints are subject to a clustering operation to generate a plurality of visual “words.” The word frequency obtained for each droplet is input into a trained machine learning droplet classifier, wherein the trained machine learning droplet classifier classifies each droplet as positive for the precipitate or negative for the precipitate.

    Micro-plate reader for ELISA testing

    公开(公告)号:US11347000B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-31

    申请号:US15737743

    申请日:2016-06-17

    Abstract: A micro-plate reader for use with a portable electronic device having a camera includes an opto-mechanical attachment configured to attach/detach to the portable electronic device and includes an array of illumination sources. A slot in the opto-mechanical attachment is dimensioned to receive an optically transparent plate containing an array of wells. Optical fibers are located in the opto-mechanical attachment and transmit light from each well to a reduced size header having, wherein the fiber array in the header has a cross-sectional area that is ≤10× the cross-sectional area of the wells in the plate. A lens located in the opto-mechanical attachment transmits light from the header fibers to the camera. Software executed on the portable electronic device or other computer is used to process the images to generate qualitative clinical determinations and/or quantitative index values for the separate wells.

    System and method for determining yeast cell viability and concentration

    公开(公告)号:US11320362B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-03

    申请号:US16333139

    申请日:2017-09-22

    Abstract: A lens-free microscope system for automatically analyzing yeast cell viability in a stained sample includes a portable, lens-free microscopy device that includes a housing containing a light source coupled to an optical fiber, the optical fiber spaced away several centimeters from an image sensor disposed at one end of the housing, wherein the stained sample is disposed on the image sensor or a sample holder adjacent to the image sensor. Hologram images are transferred to a computing device having image processing software contained therein, the image processing software identifying yeast cell candidates of interest from back-propagated images of the stained sample, whereby a plurality of spatial features are extracted from the yeast cell candidates of interest and subject to a trained machine learning model to classify the yeast cell candidates of interest as live or dead.

    VOLUMETRIC MICROSCOPY METHODS AND SYSTEMS USING RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORKS

    公开(公告)号:US20220122313A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-04-21

    申请号:US17505553

    申请日:2021-10-19

    Abstract: A deep learning-based volumetric image inference system and method are disclosed that uses 2D images that are sparsely captured by a standard wide-field fluorescence microscope at arbitrary axial positions within the sample volume. Through a recurrent convolutional neural network (RNN) (referred to herein as Recurrent-MZ), 2D fluorescence information from a few axial planes within the sample is explicitly incorporated to digitally reconstruct the sample volume over an extended depth-of-field. Using experiments on C. elegans and nanobead samples, Recurrent-MZ is demonstrated to increase the depth-of-field of a 63×/1.4 NA objective lens by approximately 50-fold, also providing a 30-fold reduction in the number of axial scans required to image the same sample volume. The generalization of this recurrent network for 3D imaging is further demonstrated by showing its resilience to varying imaging conditions, including e.g., different sequences of input images, covering various axial permutations and unknown axial positioning errors.

    Mobile microscopy system for air quality monitoring

    公开(公告)号:US11054357B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-07-06

    申请号:US16492098

    申请日:2018-03-09

    Abstract: A lens-free microscope for monitoring air quality includes a housing that contains a vacuum pump configured to draw air into an impaction nozzle. The impaction nozzle has an output located adjacent to an optically transparent substrate for collecting particles. One or more illumination sources are disposed in the housing and are configured to illuminate the collected particles on the optically transparent substrate. An image sensor is located adjacent to the optically transparent substrate, wherein the image sensor collects particle diffraction patterns or holographic images cast upon the image sensor. At least one processor is disposed in the housing and controls the vacuum pump and the one or more illumination sources. Image files are transferred to a separate computing device for image processing using machine learning to identify particles and perform data analysis to output particle images, particle size, particle density, and/or particle type data.

    METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PIXEL SUPER-RESOLUTION OF MULTIPLEXED HOLOGRAPHIC COLOR IMAGES

    公开(公告)号:US20190286053A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-09-19

    申请号:US16300546

    申请日:2017-05-10

    Abstract: A method of generating a color image of a sample includes obtaining a plurality of low resolution holographic images of the sample using a color image sensor, the sample illuminated simultaneously by light from three or more distinct colors, wherein the illuminated sample casts sample holograms on the image sensor and wherein the plurality of low resolution holographic images are obtained by relative x, y, and z directional shifts between sample holograms and the image sensor. Pixel super-resolved holograms of the sample are generated at each of the three or more distinct colors. De-multiplexed holograms are generated from the pixel super-resolved holograms. Phase information is retrieved from the de-multiplexed holograms using a phase retrieval algorithm to obtain complex holograms. The complex hologram for the three or more distinct colors is digitally combined and back-propagated to a sample plane to generate the color image.

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