Course Description

To understand the foundation of modern Digital microscopy.


Evaulation
Midterm: 35%
Microscopy project: 35%
Image analysis project: 30%

Syllabus


(This might change due to the teaching progress)



1. Bioimaging systems for biological sample

2. Foundation of optical imaging and microscopy

3. Different types of optical microscopy

4. How to build an automated microscopy system-hardware and software

5. How to build an automated microscopy system-hardware and software

6 Super-resolution microscopy

7. Electron microscopy

8 Sample for optical microscopy-Fluorescent proteins and immunostaining

9. Sample for optical microscopy-Tissue clearing and expansion microscopy

10. Midterm

11. Experiment (sample preparation)

12. Experiment (imaging sample with confocal microscopy)

13. Digital image properties

14. Image viewing and processing with ImageJ

15. Image segmentation and quantitative analysis

16. Deep learning based automated image segmentation.






Evaluation

Experiment report: 30%

Midterm: 35%

Final: 35%