LED microscope

It’s possible today to earn a medical degree without ever looking through a microscope.  There are many reasons for that, and it may become ever more common with AI-enabled microscopes that can identify pathogens better than the human eye.  With computer vision and deep learning, Duke University researchers have created a “better than human” vision scope.  “The new imaging system uses a novel light source that surrounds the samples from the sides and below. The computer can change which LEDs in this bowl-light fixture turn on and off and which colors to use. The computer was shown hundreds of samples of red blood cells infected with the malaria pathogen, as well as healthy cells. The system was made to adjust the illumination in order to see which settings work best in classifying the cells. After the training period, the system was about 90% accurate, compared with about 75% accuracy typically demonstrated by physicians, and existing learning algorithms.”     MORE

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