Smartphone-Coupled Phase Contrast Microscopy Combined with Deep Transfer Learning for Candida Species Identification: A Proof-of-Concept Study
Athanasia Sergounioti, Dimitris Rigas, Dimitris Kalles
This study demonstrates that smartphone-coupled phase contrast microscopy with deep transfer learning can achieve high accuracy in identifying Candida species from clinical isolates.
bioRxiv · May 13, 2026 · PreprintMicrobiology