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    Resolution enhancement with a task-assisted GAN to guide optical nanoscopy image analysis and acquisition

    Super-resolution fluorescence microscopy methods enable the characterization of nanostructures in living and fixed biological tissues. However, they require the adjustment of multiple imaging parameters while ...

    Catherine Bouchard, Theresa Wiesner, Andréanne Deschênes in Nature Machine Intelligence (2023)

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    Microscopy analysis neural network to solve detection, enumeration and segmentation from image-level annotations

    The development of deep learning approaches to detect, segment or classify structures of interest has transformed the field of quantitative microscopy. High-throughput quantitative image analysis presents a ch...

    Anthony Bilodeau, Constantin V. L. Delmas, Martin Parent in Nature Machine Intelligence (2022)

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    A postzygotic de novo NCDN mutation identified in a sporadic FTLD patient results in neurochondrin haploinsufficiency and altered FUS granule dynamics

    Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a heterogeneous clinical disorder characterized by progressive abnormalities in behavior, executive functions, personality, language and/or motricity. A neuropathological subty...

    Gaël Nicolas, Myriam Sévigny, François Lecoquierre in Acta Neuropathologica Communications (2022)

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    Automated Microscopy Image Segmentation and Analysis with Machine Learning

    The development of automated quantitative image analysis pipelines requires thoughtful considerations to extract meaningful information. Commonly, extraction rules for quantitative parameters are defined and a...

    Anthony Bilodeau, Catherine Bouchard, Flavie Lavoie-Cardinal in Fluorescent Microscopy (2022)

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    Neuronal activity remodels the F-actin based submembrane lattice in dendrites but not axons of hippocampal neurons

    The nanoscale organization of the F-actin cytoskeleton in neurons comprises membrane-associated periodical rings, bundles, and longitudinal fibers. The F-actin rings have been observed predominantly in axons b...

    Flavie Lavoie-Cardinal, Anthony Bilodeau, Mado Lemieux in Scientific Reports (2020)

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    A machine learning approach for online automated optimization of super-resolution optical microscopy

    Traditional approaches for finding well-performing parameterizations of complex imaging systems, such as super-resolution microscopes rely on an extensive exploration phase over the illumination and acquisitio...

    Audrey Durand, Theresa Wiesner, Marc-André Gardner in Nature Communications (2018)

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    Nanoparticle-Assisted Localized Optical Stimulation of Cultured Neurons

    Nanoparticle-assisted localized optical stimulation (NALOS) of cultured neurons is an all-optical method that allows subcellular light stimulation to investigate localized signaling in neurons. The stimulation...

    Flavie Lavoie-Cardinal, Charleen Salesse in Use of Nanoparticles in Neuroscience (2018)

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    Gold nanoparticle-assisted all optical localized stimulation and monitoring of Ca2+ signaling in neurons

    Light-assisted manipulation of cells to control membrane activity or intracellular signaling has become a major avenue in life sciences. However, the ability to perform subcellular light stimulation to investi...

    Flavie Lavoie-Cardinal, Charleen Salesse, Éric Bergeron in Scientific Reports (2016)

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    Diffraction-unlimited all-optical imaging and writing with a photochromic GFP

    Lens-based optical microscopy failed to discern fluorescent features closer than 200 nm for decades, but the recent breaking of the diffraction resolution barrier by sequentially switching the fluorescence cap...

    Tim Grotjohann, Ilaria Testa, Marcel Leutenegger, Hannes Bock, Nicolai T. Urban in Nature (2011)