Recent News
MCAM is a Research Highlight in Nature Methods
May 15, 2023
We are honored that our new technology is a Nature Methods Highlight - please check out the nice article here!
Third MCAM paper published in Optica!
May 5, 2023
Please check out our new paper here that summarizes our high-speed micro-camera arrays, which capture synchronized high-resolution image data across 54 individual cameras at data rates exceeding 40 [...]
Second MCAM paper published in Nature Photonics!
March 20, 2023
Our second paper detailing the MCAM's use for 3D imaging over large-areas and at high-speed is now published in Nature Photonics (with pre-print available to all here) - congrats to [...]
First micro-camera array microscope paper now published in eLife!
January 9, 2023
After many years of hard work, our first paper about our micro-camera array microscope technology for gigapixel-scale video acquisition is now out in eLife.
Introduction to Fourier Ptychography Review Series makes the cover!
January 9, 2023
Our 3-part review of Fourier ptychography is now out in the latest issues of Microscopy Today:
Two new papers on deep-tissue blood flow imaging by Shiqi and team
July 11, 2022
Congratulations to Shiqi and the rest of the team, who just published two papers on a new way to capture images and video of blood flow dynamics deep within tissue.
Microscopy Today article on Fourier ptychography
June 1, 2022
Please check out our first of 3 articles on Fourier ptychography in Microscopy Today here
Keep your eye out for articles 2 and 3 that provide additional information in the next couple of issues!
APL 2021 Future Luminary Award
May 17, 2022
Congratulations to former Computational Optics Lab members and collaborators, including Wenhui Liu, Ruobing Qian, Shiqi Xu and others, for their hard work on our first paper on parallelized diffuse correlation spectroscopy, which led to this great award: [...]
Vectorial Fourier Ptychography! (vFP for short)
February 22, 2022
I know that it is quite a mouthful, but Vectorial Fourier Ptychography is the name of a new imaging technique that Xiang, Shiqi and others came up with in the lab and just published a nice paper about.
We made a microscope that captures overlapped images
January 24, 2022
Please check out more details here!
Excited to start Facebook Research project!
November 20, 2021
The Horstmeyer lab has begun work on a new project sponsored by Facebook Research, which should be a lot of fun - looking forward to a successful project!
Multi-camera array microscope pre-print is out!
October 11, 2021
Please check out our first work that details a new gigapixel microscope technology:
New work details Fourier ptychography on SPAD arrays
September 21, 2021
Please check out Xi's new paper about implementing a computational imaging technique, termed Fourier ptychography, on a new type of single-photon detector array:
Noninvasive brain function detection effort
August 27, 2021
Check out a nice article here about our recent efforts with creating a new optical device to assist with epilepsy surgery planning:
We are hiring for postdocs and PhD students!
July 12, 2021
Interested in joining the Computational Optics Lab? We are hiring! Especially for postdoc roles. If interested, please reach out to Dr. Horstmeyer directly with any questions (roarke.horstmeyer@gmail.com)
Dr. Horstmeyer receives Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award
April 12, 2021
The Computational Optics Lab is happy to announce that it will be funded by Hartwell Foundation's Individual Biomedical Research Award - Thank you to all of the researchers and clinicians who have helped [...]
Prof. Horstmeyer receives 3M Young Faculty Award!
March 18, 2021
This generous award from 3M will be used to continue our development of new computational and intelligent microscopes that can allow us to "see more" at high resolution!
Parallelized high-speed cortical blood flow detection - first paper published!
February 17, 2021
We have developed a new technique to detect blood flow and measure other small variations deep within tissue:
Articles about AI and pathology
January 25, 2021
Please read more about Duke's efforts to improve pathology, including our work on a smart microscope for automated pathology, in the following articles:
Deep learning for pupil and illumination paper published!
October 6, 2020
Congratulations to Kanghyun, Pavi and Colin and our collaborator Ron Appel on completing a nice new paper in Optics Letters!
COL awarded 2021 Duke Coulter Award
September 15, 2020
This new grant will fund our research efforts surrounding a portable "intelligent" microscope for rapid blood smear analysis. We'll be working closely with the Duke hospital over the next year to hopefully get some nice data in what should be an exciting project!
Congrats to Shiqi for Theo Pilkington Fellowship!
July 21, 2020
Shiqi was recently awarded a Theo Pilkington Fellowship for the upcoming year for his outstanding work as a PhD student - great job!!
Two new pre-print papers out!
July 12, 2020
Hot off the press - the Computational Optics Lab recently published two new papers that we're excited about:
Neurophotonics chapter is out
June 6, 2020
Our recent book chapter about wavefront engineering for imaging deep within the brain is now available [...]
Colin receives an NSERC Fellowship!
May 4, 2020
I'd like to congratulate Colin on receiving a fellowship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, which will offer him some generous support for his research in our lab. Great job!