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Augmented reality microscopes for cancer histopathology

A microscope equipped with augmented display and accurate deep-learning models for real-time detection and highlighting of cancerous cells enables detection of breast cancer lymph node metastasis and prostate cancer.

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Fig. 1: The augmented reality microscope.

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Razavian, N. Augmented reality microscopes for cancer histopathology. Nat Med 25, 1334–1336 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-019-0574-4

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