5 Topic Commentaries

Virtual Staining and the Next Era of Pathology

Virtual Staining and the Next Era of Pathology

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  Aydogan Ozcan, PhD

  Biophotonics and Computational Imaging

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  UCLA Samueli School of Engineering

  Instead of manually staining tissue during the course of the surgery, virtual staining can provide an answer much faster.

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  Yair Rivenson, PhD

  Computational Imaging

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  UCLA Samueli School of Engineering

  Virtual staining gives us capabilities that are nearly impossible to achieve today, such as simultaneously staining the same tissue sample with multiple types of stains for a more accurate diagnosis.

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  Adam de la Zerda, PhD

  Biomedical Imaging (Structural Biology)

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  Stanford University School of Medicine

  We’ve not only created something that can replace the current gold-standard pathology slides for diagnosing many conditions, but we actually improved the resolution of these scans so much that we start to pick up information that would be extremely hard to see otherwise.

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  Kavita Sarin, MD, PhD

  Dermatology

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  Stanford University School of Medicine

  This has the potential to transform how we diagnose and monitor concerning skin lesions and diseases in the clinic.

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  X. Sunney Xie, PhD

  Optical Imaging and Chemical Biology

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  Harvard University

  But this technique, we believe, is better because it’s live. Surgeons can now skip all the steps of taking a biopsy, freezing, and staining the tissue. This technique allows them to do it all in vivo.

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