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MIRA: an open source and user-friendly software to automate counting and sizing of fungal spores

Background The quantification of fungal spores constitutes a fundamental metric in phytopathology, serving as the primary variable for inoculum standardization and being used as a proxy for disease…

  • MIRA automates fungal spore counting and sizing using YOLO deep learning
  • Software offers user-friendly interface and compatibility with various cameras
  • Comparative study shows 90% time reduction and high accuracy over manual methods

Balancing performance and complexity of dual-wedge prism-based spectroscopic single-molecule localization microscopy

Spectroscopic single-molecule localization microscopy (sSMLM) enables multiplexed super-resolution imaging by simultaneously acquiring the spatial position and spectral information of individual…

  • SDDWP-sSMLM achieves highest precision in both lateral and spectral localization
  • 2D-DWP offers simple, robust performance without axial information requirement
  • Study provides guidelines for selecting optimal DWP configuration based on experimental needs

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