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Field: Image analysis, computer vision, digital pathology, high-content cell analysis, statistical data analysis, microscopy automation.

Recent consulting projects:

• Deep Learning algorithms for segmentation of fluorescence images of cell nuclei in tissues based on UNet convolutional network. Interactive image annotator for creating traning sets. Augmenter for images and annotations. Pyramid-based extended depth of field method for reducing Z-stack of images to a single best-focused image. (Consulting for Akoya Biosciences).

• Analysis of multiplexed fluorescence images in Digital Pathology. Cell segmentation, measurement and classification using mathematical morphology and machine learning. Removal of autofluorescence. Determination of cell phenotypes and their interaction. (Consulting for Roche Tissue Diagnostics).

• Object and face detection and tracking in security videos with emphasis on knives and guns.

• Image and data analysis software for image-based droplet digital PCR, including segmentation of images into millions of droplets and measurement of fluorescence in them.

• Image analysis and data extraction for highly multiplexed DNA/RNA tests in detection chambers, including analyzing and registering sequences of images of probe arrays from real time PCR and DNA hybridization and subsequent statistical and model-based analysis of amplification curves.

• Software for slide scanner for Digital Pathology: identification of scan areas from the whole-slide image, focusing and focus map for scan areas, flat-field correction, global contrast and color enhancement, stitching of high-resolution images.

• Software for decoding and fluorescence measurement of BioCode particles in Array Tape format.

• Software for finding fetal cells in maternal blood prepared in suspension using custom illumination in transmitted light and multispectral fluorescence.

• Software device drivers for micro-manager microscope control system for thermo-cycler, filter wheel, focus drive, scanning stage, LED light source.

• Software for image analysis and feature extraction of fluorescent lateral flow immunoassays.