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RESEARCH
Our lab is primarily interested in developing novel optical imaging technologies for biomedical applications. Specifically, we are focused on developing the technologies of optical coherence tomography (OCT) and optical coherence microscopy (OCM), and applying these imaging modalities to research in optogenetics and developmental biology. We are also developing AI-based tools for image denoising and segmentation, and are always looking for new ways to apply machine learning to OCT imaging. Click below to explore our various research areas!
RECENT POSTS
Z-lab awarded ARPA-H research grant for PIC-OCT
The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) has awarded a research grant to the Enabling Technologies for Photonic Chips-based Optical Coherence Tomography (PIC-OCT) project, led by Prof. Chao Zhou. The project has a budget of up to $20 million over a five year period to develop a fully integrated and portable ophthalmic OCT system […]
FlyNet2.0+ paper published in Scientific Data
The paper, “A Drosophila heart optical coherence microscopy dataset for automatic video segmentation” provides a dataset of Drosophila heart images and open source code for heart segmentation. Read more here.
Prof. Zhou elected Fellow of Optica and American Heart Association
Congratulations to Prof. Zhou for being elected as a fellow to both Optica and the American Heart Association! The title of Fellow recognizes individuals who have made significant and lasting contributions to the advancement of optics and photonics in areas including research, education, engineering, business and society. Read more: https://engineering.wustl.edu/news/2023/Zhou-elected-Fellow-of-Optica-American-Heart-Association.html
Zlab at BMES 2023
PhD students Fei Wang and Abby Matt presented their work at the Biomedical Engineering Society Conference in Seattle, Washington. We had a great time learning about exciting new research in biomedical engineering and exploring Seattle. Fei presented a poster “High-throughput Longitudinal Monitoring of Human Heart Organoids using Optical Coherence Tomography” and Abby had an oral […]
Blastoid paper online in Cell Stem Cell
In collaboration with Dr. Thorold W. Theunissen’s group at WashU, the Blastoids paper is online in Cell Stem Cell now at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1934590923002886.Congratulations to Fei Wang, Senyue Hao, and Kibeom Park!