Applied Optics and Polarimetry Lab: advancing optical polarimetry for biomedical imaging, clinical diagnostics and more.
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Our paper "Physical Realizability Classification of Incomplete Mueller Matrices: Toward Real-Time Polarimetric Imaging" was selected as an Editor's Pick in Biomedical Optics Express!
Read more →A figure from our paper "Microscopy image segmentation using a fine-tuned machine learning model with limited training dataset" was selected for the front cover of the October issue of the Journal of Microscopy!
Read more →Chae was selected as a national laureate of i-PhD, the French government's deeptech innovation contest operated by Bpifrance under France 2030, for the AoPolar project. Congratulations!
Read more →Dorotea Nardini, PhD student at LENS (Florence, Italy), joins AOPLab until December 2026 to combine Mueller polarimetry and hyperspectral imaging for the characterization of brain tumor samples.
Chae won first place at Falling Walls Lab Paris with the pitch "Breaking the Wall of Blind Brain Surgery". Congratulations!
Chae received the Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale (FRM) Young Researcher Award at the Nature Conferences "Redefining Healthcare in the Age of AI" in Paris. Congratulations!
Read more →Chae received the Best Student Paper Presentation Award at SPIE Photonics Europe in Strasbourg for the work "Fibrillar collagen organization mapping from imaging Mueller polarimetry data using SHG-guided machine learning". Congratulations!
Arthur received the Best Student Paper Award at SPIE Photonics West in San Francisco for the paper on correcting plastic cover–induced artifacts in Mueller polarimetric imaging during neurosurgery. Congratulations!
AOPLab has been awarded funding from the Hi! PARIS center (Institut Polytechnique de Paris) for the PRISMM project — Polarimetric Real-time Imaging and Simulation using Mueller Matrix Imaging Platform for Neurosurgery — running from 2026 to 2028.
Chae won the Optica Best Student Poster Award at the 4th International Workshop on BioPhotonics and Optical Angular Momentum (BIOAM-2025) in Palaiseau for the poster on prediction of polarimetric maps using physics-informed machine learning. Congratulations!
Chae won the IP Paris Three Minute Thesis competition, the inter-university final, and the People's Choice Award — a clean sweep at all three levels of the competition. The achievement was covered by École Polytechnique.
Read more →Demelza received the Best Student Paper Award at SPIE Photonics West 2025 in San Francisco for the paper on uncertainty-aware Mueller matrix polarimetry using a Gaussian process pipeline. Congratulations!