Polarization and Orbital Angular Momentum of Light in Biomedical Applications: feature issue introduction

Igor Meglinski, Tatiana Novikova, and Kishan Dholakia

Biomed. Opt. Express 12(10), 6255-6258 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Automatic classification of esophageal disease in gastroscopic images using an efficient channel attention deep dense convolutional neural network

Wenju Du, Nini Rao, Changlong Dong, Yingchun Wang, Dingcan Hu, Linlin Zhu, Bing Zeng, and Tao Gan

Biomed. Opt. Express 12(6), 3066-3081 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Dual-LC PSHG microscopy for imaging collagen type I and type II gels with pixel-resolution analysis

Chung-Hwan Chen, Anupama Venugopalan Nair, Shu-Chun Chuang, Yi-Shan Lin, Mei-Hsin Cheng, Chun-Yu Lin, Chia-Ying Chang, Shean-Jen Chen, and Chi-Hsiang Lien

Biomed. Opt. Express 12(5), 3050-3065 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Toward a quantitative method for estimating tumour-stroma ratio in breast cancer using polarized light microscopy

Jillian Sprenger, Ciara Murray, Jigar Lad, Blake Jones, Georgia Thomas, Sharon Nofech-Mozes, Mohammadali Khorasani, and Alex Vitkin

Biomed. Opt. Express 12(6), 3241-3252 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Multi-color structured illumination microscopy for live cell imaging based on the enhanced image recombination transform algorithm

Tianyu Zhao, Huiwen Hao, Zhaojun Wang, Yansheng Liang, Kun Feng, Minru He, Xue Yun, Piero R. Bianco, Yujie Sun, Baoli Yao, and Ming Lei

Biomed. Opt. Express 12(6), 3474-3484 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (3)]

Isolating individual polarization effects from the Mueller matrix: comparison of two non-decomposition techniques

Muaz Iqbal, Banat Gul, Shamim Khan, Sumara Ashraf, and Iftikhar Ahmad

Biomed. Opt. Express 12(7), 3743-3759 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Quantitative structural imaging of keratoconic corneas using polarization-resolved SHG microscopy

Clothilde Raoux, Margaux Schmeltz, Marion Bied, Maged Alnawaiseh, Uwe Hansen, Gaël Latour, and Marie-Claire Schanne-Klein

Biomed. Opt. Express 12(7), 4163-4178 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Mueller matrix polarimetry and polar decomposition of articular cartilage imaged in reflectance

Ruby N. Huynh, George Nehmetallah, and Christopher B. Raub

Biomed. Opt. Express 12(8), 5160-5178 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Label-free microscopy of mitotic chromosomes using the polarization orthogonality breaking technique

Rajesh Desapogu, Gilles Le Marchand, Rebecca Smith, Paulami Ray, Émilie Gillier, Stéphanie Dutertre, Mehdi Alouini, Marc Tramier, Sébastien Huet, and Julien Fade

Biomed. Opt. Express 12(8), 5290-5304 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Measuring glucose concentration in a solution based on the indices of polarimetric purity

Dekui Li, Chenxiang Xu, Man Zhang, Xinyang Wang, Kai Guo, Yongxuan Sun, Jun Gao, and Zhongyi Guo

Biomed. Opt. Express 12(4), 2447-2459 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Polarization properties of retinal blood vessel walls measured with polarization sensitive optical coherence tomography

Hadi Afsharan, Michael J. Hackmann, Qiang Wang, Farzaneh Navaeipour, Stephy Vijaya Kumar Jayasree, Robert J. Zawadzki, Dilusha Silva, Chulmin Joo, and Barry Cense

Biomed. Opt. Express 12(7), 4340-4362 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Auto-detection of cervical collagen and elastin in Mueller matrix polarimetry microscopic images using K-NN and semantic segmentation classification

Camilo Roa, V. N. Du Le, Mala Mahendroo, Ilyas Saytashev, and Jessica C. Ramella-Roman

Biomed. Opt. Express 12(4), 2236-2249 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Composite polarization systems for independent controlling polarization of two beams with different wavelengths

Evelina A. Bibikova, Nataliya D. Kundikova, Yurii V. Mukhin, and Vladimir V. Chirkov

Biomed. Opt. Express 12(7), 4046-4055 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Backscattering polarimetric imaging of the human brain to determine the orientation and degree of alignment of nerve fiber bundles

Arushi Jain, Leonie Ulrich, Michael Jaeger, Philippe Schucht, Martin Frenz, and H. Günhan Akarcay

Biomed. Opt. Express 12(7), 4452-4466 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (4)]

Polarization and depolarization metrics as optical markers in support to histopathology of ex vivo colon tissue

Deyan Ivanov, Viktor Dremin, Ekaterina Borisova, Alexander Bykov, Tatiana Novikova, Igor Meglinski, and Razvigor Ossikovski

Biomed. Opt. Express 12(7), 4560-4572 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Comparison between image texture and polarization features in histopathology

Yudi Liu, Yang Dong, Lu Si, Ruoyu Meng, Yanmin Dong, and Hui Ma

Biomed. Opt. Express 12(3), 1593-1608 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Probing layered structures by multi-color backscattering polarimetry and machine learning

Yuanhuan Zhu, Yang Dong, Yue Yao, Lu Si, Yudi Liu, Honghui He, and Hui Ma

Biomed. Opt. Express 12(7), 4324-4339 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Controlling the optical pathlength in continuous-wave reflectance spectroscopy using polarization

Callum M. Macdonald, Susmita Sridhar, Hung T. X. Do, Javier Luna-Labrador, Mouloud Adel, and Anabela Da Silva

Biomed. Opt. Express 12(7), 4401-4413 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Stokes polarization imaging applied for monitoring dynamic tissue optical clearing

Jiawei Song, Nan Zeng, Wei Guo, Jun Guo, and Hui Ma

Biomed. Opt. Express 12(8), 4821-4836 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Polarimetric data-based model for tissue recognition

Carla Rodríguez, Albert Van Eeckhout, Laia Ferrer, Enrique Garcia-Caurel, Emilio González-Arnay, Juan Campos, and Angel Lizana

Biomed. Opt. Express 12(8), 4852-4872 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]