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20222026
most citedCombining acoustic bioprinting with AI-assisted Raman spectroscopy for high-throughput identification of bacteria in blood

83 citations · 87 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.LG2026

Sharpness-Aware Minimization (SAM) Improves Classification Accuracy of Bacterial Raman Spectral Data Enabling Portable Diagnostics

Kaitlin Zareno, Jarett Dewbury, Siamak K. Sorooshyari +2

Antimicrobial resistance is expected to claim 10 million lives per year by 2050, and resource-limited regions are most affected. Raman spectroscopy is a novel pathogen diagnostic a…

physics.optics2026

Pic2Spec: Generative Modeling Reconstructs Single Cell Raman Fingerprints from Brightfield Images

Srilakshmi Premachandran, Amit Kumar Bhuyan, Loza F. Tadesse

Single-cell molecular characterization remains a bottleneck in scalable biological analysis because of labeling requirements, limited multiplexing, and reagents that perturb physio…

eess.IV2026

Deep Speckle Holography Redefines Label-free Nanoparticle Phenotyping

Yanmin Zhu, Yuxing Li, Jingyan Chen +9

Nanoparticle metrology has long been constrained by the assumption that, in mixed and unprocessed fluids, particle size, morphology, composition, and species-specific abundance can…

q-bio.QM2026

Non-perturbative Bacterial Identification Directly from Solid Agar Plates Using Raman

Jeong Hee Kim, Jia Dong, Marissa Morales +1

Raman spectroscopy is a promising tool for microbial identification, yet its implementation in microbiology and clinical workflow is still restricted due to the accompanying additi…

physics.app-ph2025

Towards Breath Based Diagnostics via Water-mediated Capture of Synthetic Breath Biomarkers in SERS-active Plasmonic Nanogaps

Aditya Garg, Marissa Morales, Aashini Shah +7

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are valuable health indicators, with synthetic breath biomarkers offering rapid and disease specific diagnostics. However, their <100 ppb level ex…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Nano-engineered surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy substrates for probing tissue-material interactions

Connie M. Wang, Roberta M. Sabino, Aditya Garg +3

Innovation in biomaterials has brought both breakthroughs and new challenges in medicine, as implant materials have become increasingly multifunctional and complex. One of the grea…

q-bio.CB2025

Interplay of Electrostatic Interaction and Steric Repulsion between Bacteria and Gold Surface Influences Raman Enhancement

Jia Dong, Jeong Hee Kim, Isaac Pincus +4

Plasmonic nanostructures have wide applications in photonics including pathogen detection and diagnosis via Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS). Despite major role plasmonic…

cs.LG2024

Universal Spectral Transfer with Physical Prior-Informed Deep Generative Learning

Yanmin Zhu, Loza F. Tadesse

Spectroscopy is a powerful analytical technique for characterizing matter across physical and biological realms1-5. However, its fundamental principle necessitates specialized inst…

physics.bio-ph2023★ 4 cited

Rapid, antibiotic incubation-free determination of tuberculosis drug resistance using machine learning and Raman spectroscopy

Babatunde Ogunlade, Loza F. Tadesse, Hongquan Li +6

Tuberculosis (TB) is the world's deadliest infectious disease, with over 1.5 million deaths annually and 10 million new cases reported each year. The causative organism, Mycobacter…

physics.bio-ph2023

More than magnetic isolation: Dynabeads as strong Raman reporters towards simultaneous capture and identification of targets

Jongwan Lee, Marissa McDonald, Nikiwe Mhlanga +3

Dynabeads are superparamagnetic particles used for immunomagnetic purification of cells and biomolecules. Post-capture, however, target identification relies on tedious culturing,…

physics.bio-ph2022★ 83 cited

Combining acoustic bioprinting with AI-assisted Raman spectroscopy for high-throughput identification of bacteria in blood

Fareeha Safir, Nhat Vu, Loza F. Tadesse +7

Identifying pathogens in complex samples such as blood, urine, and wastewater is critical to detect infection and inform optimal treatment. Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SER…