Publications 2023 Viewing life without labels under optical microscopes, Nature Comm Biology 6, 559 (2023) Initiating and imaging cavitation from infused echo contrast agents through the EkoSonic catheter, Nature Sci Reports 13 (1), 6191 Digital staining facilitates biomedical microscopy, Front Bioinform. 3, 1243663 (2023) Artificial Confocal Microscopy for Deep Label-Free Imaging, Nature Photonics 17, 250–258 (2023) 2022 White Blood Cell Detection, Classification and Analysis Using Phase Imaging with Computational Specificity (PICS); Nat Sci Rep 12, Page 20043 Live-Dead Assay on Unlabeled Cells Using Phase Imaging with Computational Specificity, Nature Communications 13, Page 713 Density Fluctuations, Homeostasis, and Reproduction Effects in Bacteria; Nat. Commun Biol 5, Page 397 Circadian Volume Changes in Hippocampal Glia Studied by Label-Free Interferometric Imaging; Cells 11, Page 2073 Cell Cycle Stage Classification Using Phase Imaging with Computational Specificity; ACS Photonics Automatic Colorectal Cancer Screening Using Deep Learning in Spatial Light Interference Microscopy Data; Cells 11(4), Page 716 2021 Synthetic Aperture Interference Light (SAIL) Microscopy for High-Throughput Label-Free Imaging; Applied Physics Letters, 119, Page 233701 Spatial Light Interference Microscopy: Principle and Applications to Biomedicine; Advances in Optics and Photonics 13, Pages 353-425 Multiscale Assay of Unlabeled Neurite Dynamics Using Phase Imaging with Computational Specificity; ACS Sensors, April, 21 Monitoring Reactivation of Latent HIV by Label-Free Gradient Light Interference Microscopy; iScience, volume 24, issue 8, Page 102940 Microbial Metabolic Noise; WIREs Mech Dis 13, Page e1512 Large-Scale Phase Retrieval; Light: Science & Applications 10 Label-Free Screening of Brain Tissue Myelin Content Using Phase Imaging with Computational Specificity (PICS); APL Photonics, 7 Label-Free SARS-CoV-2 Detection and Classification Using Phase Imaging with Computational Specificity; Light: Science & Applications, Volume 10, Issue 1, Pages 1-12 High-Resolution Impedance Mapping Using Electrically Activated Quantitative Phase Imaging; Light Sci Appl 10, 20 Diffraction As Scattering Under the Born Approximation; Optics Express, Vol. 29, No. 24 / 22 Deep Learning Classification of Lipid Droplets in Quantitative Phase Images; PLoS One 16(4), e0249196 Computational Interference Microscopy Enabled by Deep Learning; APL Photonics 6 2020 Wolf Phase Tomography (WPT) of Transparent structures using partially Coherent Illumination; Light: Science & Applications 9:142 (2020) Reproductive Outcomes Predicted by Phase Imaging with Computational Specificity of Spermatozoon Ultrastructure, PNAS 117, 31, 18309 Real-time Jones Phase Microscopy for Studying Transparent and Birefringent Specimens; Optics Express, vol. 28, no. 23 Quantitative Phase Imaging of Stromal Prognostic Markers in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma; Biomedic Optics Express, Vol. 11, No. 3 Quantifying Myelin content in Brain Tissue using Color Spatial Light Interference Microscopy (CSLIM); PLOS One 15(11): e0241084 Phase Imaging with Computational Specificity (PICS) for Measuring Dry Mass changes in Sub-cellular Compartments; Nature Comm. 11, Article 6256 Network Science Characteristics of Brain-derived Neuronal Cultures Deciphered from Quantitative Phase Imaging data; Scientific Reports, 10, 15078 Morphometric Analysis of Sperm used for IVP by Three Different Separation Methods with Spatial Light Interference Microscopy; Systems Biology in Reproductive Medicine, Volume 66, 1 Matrix Softness-Mediated 3D Zebrafish Hepatocyte Modulates Response to Endocrine Disrupting chemicals; Environ. Sci. Tech. 54, 13797-13806 Label-free Colorectal Cancer Screening using Deep Learning and Spatial Light Interference Microscopy (SLIM); APL Photonics, 10, 1063-5, 004723 Integrative quantitative-phase and airy light-sheet imaging. Nat Sci Rep 10, 20150 (2020) High-throughput Sperm Assay using Label-free Microscopy: Morphometric Comparison between different Sperm structures of Boar and Stallion Spermatozoa; Animal Reprod Science, 219, 106509 Harmonically Decoupled Gradient Light Interference Microscopy (HD-GLIM); Optics Letters, Vol. 45, No. 6 Harmonic Optical Tomography of Nonlinear Structures; Nature Photonics, 14, 564–569 ER membranes exhibit phase behavior at sites of organelle contact; PNAS, vol. 117, no. 13, Page 7231 Electrothermal Soft Manipulator Enabling Safe Transport and Handling of Thin Cell/tissue Sheets and Bioelectronic Devices; Science Advances 6 (42) Computational Optical Imaging goes Viral; APL Photonics 5, 030401 2019 Zinc’s Effect on the Differentiation of Porcine Adipose-Derived Stem Cells into Osteoblasts; Journal of Regenerative Medicine, 8, 2 Tissue Spatial Correlation as Cancer Marker; Journal of Biomedical Optics 24(1), 016502 Quantitative Phase Imaging Reveals Matrix Stiffness-Dependent Growth and Migration of Cancer Cells; Scientific Reports volume 9, Article number: 248 (2019) Quantitative Phase Imaging (QPI) in Neuroscience; IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, vol. 25, 1 Quantitative Histopathology of Stained Tissues using Color Spatial Light Interference Microscopy (CSLIM); Sci Reports, 9, Article number: 14679 (2019) Phase separation of YAP reorganizes genome topology for long-term YAP target gene expression, Nat Cell Biol. 2019 Dec; 21(12): 1578–1589 Optical Inspection of Nanoscale Structures using a Novel Machine Learning based Synthetic Image Generation Algorithm; Optics Express, Vol. 27, No. 13 Imaging Collagen Properties in the Uterosacral Ligaments of Women with Pelvic Organ Prolapse using Spatial Light Interference Microscopy (SLIM), Optics and Photonics, Frontiers in Physics, 10, Page 3389 Graphene Oxide Substrates with N-Cadherin Stimulates Neuronal Growth and Intracellular Transport; Acta Biomaterialia Gabor’s Holography at Sea; Science & Applications (2019) 8, 19 EPI-Illumination Gradient Light Interference Microscopy for Imaging Opaque Structures; Nat. Communications, 10, Article number: 4691 (2019) Engineering Geometrical 3-Dimensional Untethered in Vitro Neural Tissue Mimic; PNAS, 116 (51) Pages 25932-25940 Eliciting the impacts of cellular noise on metabolic trade-offs by quantitative mass imaging. Nat Commun 10, 848 (2019) Effects of Substrate Patterning on Cellular Spheroid Growth and Dynamics Measured by Gradient Light Interference Microscopy (GLIM); Journal of BioPhotonics, Vol 12, Issue 12 Cell-to-Cell Influence on Growth in Large Populations; Biomedical Optics Express, Vol. 10, No. 9 Bond-Selective Transient Phase Imaging via Sensing of the Infrared Photothermal Effect; Light: Science & Applications (2019) 8, 116 3D‐Printed Hydrogel Composites for Predictive Temporal (4D) Cellular Organizations and Patterned Biogenic Mineralization; Adv. Healthcare Mater. (2018) 1800788 2018 Topography and Refractometry of Sperm Cells using Spatial Light Interference Microscopy; Journal of Biomedical Optics 025003, Vol. 23(2) SLIM Microscopy Allows for Visualization of DNA-containing Liposomes Designed for Sperm-mediated Gene Transfer in Cattle; Molecular Biology Reports volume 46, pages 695–703 (2019) Simultaneous Cell Traction and Growth Measurements using Light; J. Biophotonics (2018) e201800182 Self-Coacervation of a Silk-Like Protein and Its Use As an Adhesive for Cellulosic Materials, ACS Macro Lett. 2018, 7, 9, 1120–1125 Real-time Halo Correction in Phase Contrast Imaging; Biomedical Optics Express, Vol. 9, No. 2 Quantitative Phase Imaging in Biomedicine; Nature Photonics, VOL 12, Pages 578–589 Optical Properties of Acute Kidney Injury Measured by Quantitative Phase Imaging; Biomedical Optics Express Vol. 9, No. 3 Optical Excitation and Detection of Neuronal Activity; J. Biophotonics. (2018) e201800269 Magnified Image Spatial Spectrum (MISS) Microscopy for Nanometer and Millisecond Scale Label-free Imaging; Optics Express, Vol. 26, No. 5 Label-free Quantitative Evaluation of Breast Tissue using Spatial Light Interference Microscopy (SLIM); Scientific Reports (2018) 8:6875 Endoscopic Diffraction Phase Microscopy; Optics Letters, Vol. 43, No. 14 Effect of Tissue Staining in Quantitative Phase Imaging; J. Biophotonics (2018) e201700402 Disorder Strength Measured by Quantitative Phase Imaging as Intrinsic Cancer Marker in Fixed Tissue Biopsies; PLOS One, 10.1371 3D Imaging of Live Specimens-Quantitative Phase Imaging with SLIM and GLIM; Imaging & Microscopy, 4.2018 2017 Three-Dimensional Mesostructures as High-temperature Growth Templates, Electronic Cellular Scaffolds, and Self-propelled Microrobots; PNAS, 114 (45) Pages E9455-E9464 Three-dimensional Intracellular Transport in Neuron Bodies and Neurites Investigated by Label-free Dispersion-relation Phase Spectroscopy; ISAC Cytometry Part A (2017) The Power of Imaging with Phase, not Power; Physics Today, 5 (2017) Pages 35-40 Robust microbial cell segmentation by optical-phase thresholding with minimal processing requirements. Cytometry, 91: 443-449 Refractive Index Variance of Cells and Tissues Measured by Quantitative Phase Imaging; Optics Express 1573 , Vol. 25, No. 2 Quantitative Phase Imaging for Medical Diagnosis; J. Biophotonics 10, no. 2, 177–205 (2017) Quantitative Assessment of Neural Outgrowth using Spatial Light Interference Microscopy; Journal of Biomedical Optics 22(6), 066015 Quantifying Collagen Fiber Orientation in Breast Cancer using Quantitative Phase Imaging; Journal of Biomedical Optics 046004, Vol. 22(4) Physical Significance of Backscattering Phase Measurements; Optics Letters, Vol. 42, No. 22 Measurement of Multispectral Scattering Properties in Mouse Brain Tissue; Biomedical Optics Express 1763, Vol. 8, No. 3 Label-free Tissue Scanner for Colorectal Cancer Screening; Journal of Biomedical Optics 066016, Vol. 22(6) Halo-free Phase Contrast Microscopy; Scientific Reports, 7:44034 Gradient Light Interference Microscopy for 3D Imaging of Unlabeled Specimens; Nature Communications, 8: 210 Geometric Localization of Thermal Fluctuations in Red Blood Cells; PNAS Early Edition, 1613204114 Coupled Circumferential and Axial Tension Driven by Actin and Myosin Influences in Vivo Axon Diameter; Scientific Reports, 7: 14188 Cell Density Modulates Intracellular Mass Transport in Neural Networks; ISAC, Cytometry Part A Automatic Gleason Grading of Prostate Cancer using Quantitative Phase Imaging and Machine Learning; Journal of Biomedical Optics 036015, Vol. 22(3) 3D-Printed Phema Materials for Topographical and Biochemical Modulation of Dorsal Root Ganglion Cell Response; ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces (2017) 9, 30318−30328 2016 White-light Diffraction Phase Microscopy at Doubled Space-Bandwidth Product; Optics Express 29033, Vol. 24, No. 25 Statistical Dispersion Relation for Spatially Broadband Fields; Optics Letters, Vol. 41, No. 11 Standardizing the Resolution Claims for Coherent Microscopy; Nature Photonics, VOL 10 (2016) Solving Inverse Scattering Problems in Biological Samples by Quantitative Phase Imaging; Laser Photonics Rev. 10, No. 1, 13–39 (2016) Quantitative Phase Imaging of Weakly Scattering Objects using Partially Coherent Illumination; Optics Express 11686, Vol. 24, No. 11 Programming Mechanical and Physicochemical Properties of 3D Hydrogel Cellular Microcultures Via Direct Ink Writing; Adv. Healthcare Mater. (2016), 201500888 Prediction of Prostate Cancer Recurrence using Quantitative Phase Imaging: Validation on a General Population; Scientific Reports, 6:33818 Phase Correlation Imaging of Unlabeled Cell Dynamics; Scientific Reports, 6:32702 Microarrays for the study of compartmentalized microorganisms in alginate microbeads and (W/O/W) double emulsions, 2016 RSC advances, Vol 6 (115) 114830-114842 Label-free, Multi-scale Imaging of Ex-Vivo Mouse Brain using Spatial Light Interference Microscopy; Scientific Reports, 6:39667 Label-free Imaging of Single Microtubule Dynamics using Spatial Light Interference Microscopy; ACS Nano (2017) 11, 1, Pages 647–655 Dispersion Relations of Cytoskeleton Dynamics; Cell Health and Cytoskeleton (2016) 8 Pages 1–7 2015 Quantitative Phase Imaging of Arthropods; Journal of Biomedical Optics (2015) 20(11), 111212 Plane-wave Decomposition of Spatially Random Fields; Optics Letters (2015) Vol. 40, No. 7 Measuring the Nonuniform Evaporation Dynamics of Sprayed Sessile Microdroplets with Quantitative Phase Imaging; Langmuir (2015) 31, 40, Pages 11020–11032 High‐resolution Projection Microstereolithography for Patterning of Neovasculature; Adv. Healthcare Mater. (2015) 201500721 Breast Cancer Diagnosis using Spatial Light Interference Microscopy; Journal of Biomedical Optics (2015) 20(11), 111210 Active Intracellular Transport in Metastatic Cells studied by Spatial Light Interference Microscopy; Journal of Biomedical Optics 111209-1 (November 2015) Vol. 20(11) 2014 White-light Diffraction Tomography of Unlabelled Live Cells, Nature Photonics (2014) 350 Spatiotemporal Characterization of a Fibrin Clot Using Quantitative Phase Imaging; PLOS One, Volume 9, Issue 11 , e111381 Quantitative phase imaging with partially coherent illumination; Optics Letters 5511, Vol. 39, No. 19 Quantitative Phase Imaging of Cells in 2-, 3- and 4-D; Optics & Photonics News, 12 (2014) Quantitative Phase Imaging (QPI): Metrology meets Biology; IEEE Photonics Journal, Breakthroughs in Photonics, Vol. 6, No. 2 Optical Assay of Erythrocyte Function in Banked Blood; Scientific Reports, 4 : 6211 New Technologies for Measuring Single Cell Mass, Lab. Chip, 14, 646-652 (2014) Nanoscale Topography and Spatial Light Modulator Characterization using Wide-field Quantitative Phase Imaging; Optics Express 3432, Vol. 22, No. 3 Label-free Characterization of Emerging Human Neuronal Networks; Scientific Reports, 4 : 4434 Inverse Scattering Solutions using Low-Coherence Light; Optics Letters, vol. 39, no. 15 In Situ Measurements of the Axial Expansion of Palladium Microdisks during Hydrogen Exposure using Diffraction Phase Microscopy; Optical Materials Express 2559, Vol. 4, No. 12 Highly Sensitive Quantitative Imaging for Monitoring Single Cancer Cell Growth Kinetics and Drug Response; PLOS One, Volume 9, Issue 2, e89000 EPI-Illumination Diffraction Phase Microscopy with White Light; Optics Letters, Vol. 39, No. 21 Effects of Spatial Coherence in Diffraction Phase Microscopy; Optics Express 5134, Vol. 22, No. 5 Dissolution Chemistry and Biocompatibility of Single-Crystalline Silicon Nanomembranes and Associated Materials for Transient Electronics, ACS Nano (2014) Diffraction Phase Microscopy: Principles and Applications in Materials and Life Sciences; Advances in Optics and Photonics 6, 57–119 (2014) Diffraction Phase Microscopy: Monitoring Nanoscale Dynamics in Materials Science; Applied Optics Vol. 53, No. 27 2013 Spatial Light Interference Microscopy (SLIM) Using Twisted-Nematic Liquid-Crystal Modulation, Biomed. Opt. Exp., 4(9), 1571-1583 (2013) Real time Blood Testing using Quantitative Phase Imaging; PLOS One 8(2): E55676 (2013) Nanoscale Fluctuations and Surface Tension Measurements in Droplets using Phase-Resolved Low-Coherence Interferometry, Appl. Opt., 52 (1), A177 (2013) High Resolution Phase-Sensitive Magnetomotive Optical Coherence Microscopy for Tracking Magnetic Microbeads and Cellular Mechanics, IEEE JSTQE, PP (99), 1 (2013P Gradient Field Microscopy of Unstained Specimens; Opt. Exp. 21 (16), 19188 (2013) Gradient Field Microscopy for Label-free Diagnosis of Human Biopsies; Appl. Opt. (Special Issue on Holography), 52 (1), A92-A96 (2013) Fourier Phase Microscopy with White Light, Biomed. Opt. Exp. 4 (8), 1434-1441 (2013). Fast Phase Reconstruction in White Light Diffraction Phase Microscopy; Appl. Opt. (Special Issue on Holography), 52 (1), A97-A101 (2013) Digital Projection Photochemical Etching Defines Gray-scale Features, Opt. Exp., 21(11), PP.13547-13554 (2013) Deterministic Signal Associated with a Random Field, Opt. Exp., 21(18), 20806-20820 (2013) Detecting 20 NM Wide Defects in Large Area Nanopatterns using Optical Interferometric Microscopy, Nano Letters 13 (8), 3716-3721 (2013). Cardiomyocyte Imaging using Real-time SLIM, PLOS One 8(2) e56930(2013) 2012 Visualizing Escherichia Coli Sub-Cellular Structure using Sparse Deconvolution Spatial Light Interference Tomography; PLOS One, 7 (6), e38916 (2012) Spectroscopic Diffraction Phase Microscopy, Opt. Lett., 37, 17 (2012) Optically Monitoring and Controlling Nanoscale Topography during Semiconductor Etching, Nature-Light: Science & Applications, 1, E30 (2012) Gradient Field Microscopy of Unstained Specimens, Opt. Exp., 20 (6), 2012 Gradient field microscopy allows label-free disease diagnosis; Laser Focus World (2012) Dispersion-Relation Fluorescence Spectroscopy; Phys. Rev. Lett. PRL, 109, 188104 Diffraction Phase Microscopy with White Light; Optics Letters 37 (6), 2012 Derivative Method for Phase Retrieval in Off-Axis Quantitative Phase Imaging, Optics Letters 37 (11), 2012 2011 Tissue Refractive Index as Marker of Disease, J. Biomed. Opt. 16(11), 2011 Spatial Light Interference Tomography (SLIT), Opt. Exp., 19 (21), 2011 Spatial Light Interference Microscopy (SLIM); Opt. Exp. 19, 1016-1026 (2011) SIMULTANEOUS OPTICAL MEASUREMENTS OF CELL MOTILITY AND GROWTH, BIOMED. OPT. EXP., 2 (10), 2011 Scattering-Phase Theorem; Opt. Lett. 36, 1215-1217 (2011) Optical Measurement of Cycle-Dependent Growth; Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 108 (32), (2011) One-Dimensional Deterministic Transport in Neurons Measured by Dispersion-relation Phase Spectroscopy, J. Phys. Cond. Matt., 23, 2011 Off-axis Quantitative Phase Imaging Processing using Cuda: Toward Real-time Applications; Biomed. Opt. Exp., 2 (7), (2011) Measuring the Scattering Parameters of Tissues from Quantitative Phase Imaging of Thin Slices, Opt. Lett., 36, (2011) Measurement of the Nonlinear Elasticity of Red Blood Cell Membranes; Phys. Rev., 83, 051925 (2011) Light Scattering of Human Red Blood Cells During Metabolic Remodeling of the Membrane; J. Biomed. Opt., 16, 011013 (2011) Laplace Field Microscopy for Label-free Imaging of Dynamic Biological Structures; Optics Letters, Vol. 36, No. 23 Label-free Intracellular Transport Measured by Spatial Light Interference Microscopy; J. Biomed. Opt. 16, 026019 (2011) Effective Temperature of Red Blood Cell Membrane Fluctuations; Phys. Rev. Lett., 106, (2011) Effective 3D Viscoelasticity of Red Blood Cells Measured by Diffraction Phase Microscopy; Biomed. Opt. Express 2, 485-490 (2011) Dispersion-Relation Phase Spectroscopy of Intracellular Transport, Opt. Exp., 19 (21), 2011 Deconvolved Spatial Light Interference Microscopy for Live Cell Imaging, IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., 58 (9), 2011 Correlation-Induced Spectral Changes in Tissues, Opt. Lett., 36 (21), 2011 Cell Imaging Beyond the Diffraction Limit using Sparse Deconvolution Spatial Light Interference Microscopy; Biomed. Opt. Exp., 2 (7), (2011) Born Approximation Model for Light Scattering by Red Blood Cells; Biomed. Opt. Exp., 2, (10), 2011 Blood Testing at the Single Cell Level using Quantitative Phase and Amplitude Microscopy, Biomed. Opt. Exp, 2(12), 2011