Using machine-learning to optimize phase contrast in a low-cost cellphone microscope

• Benedict Diederich ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: benedict.diederich@ipht-jena.de

  Affiliations Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH Research Department, Göttingen, Germany, Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Albert-Einstein Str. 9, 07745 Jena, Germany, Institute of Physical Chemistry and Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Helmholtzweg 4, 07743 Jena, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0453-6286

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• Rolf Wartmann,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH Research Department, Göttingen, Germany

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• Harald Schadwinkel,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH Research Department, Göttingen, Germany

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• Rainer Heintzmann

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Albert-Einstein Str. 9, 07745 Jena, Germany, Institute of Physical Chemistry and Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Helmholtzweg 4, 07743 Jena, Germany

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