@inproceedings{f7d84a9eab244de88ff8a1cf2776c587,
title = "An optical model of whole blood for detecting platelets in lens-free images",
abstract = "In this paper we consider the task of detecting platelets in images of diluted whole blood taken with a lens-free microscope. Despite having several advantages over traditional microscopes, lens-free imaging systems have the significant challenge that the resolution of the system is typically limited by the pixel dimensions of the image sensor. As a result of this limited resolution, detecting platelets is very difficult to do even by manual inspection of the images due to the fact that platelets occupy just a few pixels of the reconstructed image. To address this challenge, we develop an optical model of diluted whole blood to generate physically realistic simulated holograms which we then use to train a convolutional neural network (CNN) for platelet detection. We validate our approach by collecting both lens-free and fluorescent microscopy images of the same field of view of diluted whole blood samples with fluorescently labeled platelets.",
keywords = "Holography, Lens-free imaging, Object detection",
author = "Haeffele, {Benjamin D.} and Christian Pick and Ziduo Lin and Evelien Mathieu and Ray, {Stuart C.} and Ren{\'e} Vidal",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019.; 4th International Workshop on Simulation and Synthesis in Medical Imaging, SASHIMI 2019, held in conjunction with the 22nd International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2019 ; Conference date: 13-10-2019 Through 13-10-2019",
year = "2019",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-32778-1_15",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9783030327774",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "140--150",
editor = "Ninon Burgos and Ali Gooya and David Svoboda",
booktitle = "Simulation and Synthesis in Medical Imaging - 4th International Workshop, SASHIMI 2019, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2019, Proceedings",
}