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Computational staining of unlabelled tissue

Histologically stained slides can be generated from unlabelled autofluorescence images of tissue samples via deep learning.

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Fig. 1: Histological staining (top) and computational staining (bottom) of tissue slides.

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Bakas, S., Feldman, M.D. Computational staining of unlabelled tissue. Nat Biomed Eng 3, 425–426 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-019-0414-3

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