5 accepted papers
Manipulation of motile cells is crucial for biological research and clinical applications. However, obtaining Z-axis visual feedback under monocular microscopy remains a challenge for robotic micromanipulation. Traditional depth-from-focus and depth-from-defocus methods fail to handle motile cells d
Automating cell manipulation at a solid-liquid interface is a critical challenge for biomedical applications such as embryo cryopreservation. Unlike manipulation in a full liquid medium, the cell-substrate contact creates a significant static friction force that is not readily measurable with curren…
Automated positioning systems play a pivotal role in micro-scale cell manipulation. In clinical intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) of in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment, a motile sperm needs to be immobilized by glass micropipette tapping for subsequent surgical steps. The process requires…
Traditional sperm morphology analysis is based on tedious manual annotation. Automated morphology analysis of a high number of sperm requires accurate segmentation of each sperm part and quantitative morphology evaluation. State-of-the-art instance-aware part segmentation networks follow a "detect-t…