Aaron Acevedo is an assistant editor for LCGC and Spectroscopy at MJH Life Sciences.
Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Identified Using Infrared Spectroscopy and Machine Learning
March 27th 2024Scientists from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, the Afeka Tel-Aviv Academic College of Engineering, and the Shamoon College of Engineering recently created a system that combines Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy with machine learning algorithms to identify bacteria that is resistant to antibiotics.
University of Pennsylvania Graduate Researcher Wins SPIE Medical Imaging Student Paper Award
March 14th 2024A PhD student in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania has won the 2024 Physics of Medical Imaging Student Paper Award, which is given out annually by the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE), at the Medical Imaging Symposium in San Diego, California.
Photonics West: New Fourier-Based System to Improve Upon Neural Networks
February 8th 2024At SPIE Photonics West 2024, Jiachi Ye of the University of Florida held a presentation about a 4f-based free-space optical system (light-based computer) to address power consumption and speed limitations of calculations performed with convolutional neural networks (CNNs).