Tim Weber @timdweber

Building microscopes and methods to detect cancer and improve surgery. @RLEatMIT & @BIDMCpath mit.edu/~tweber/ Cambridge, MA Joined May 2011

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Tim Weber @timdweber

7 months ago

@kevin_tsia Nice! I've always said that CD/DVD/Bluray are in principle good high throughput microscopes. People look at me like I'm crazy🫤

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Tim Weber @timdweber

9 months ago

#1 Intro: forum.image.sc/t/designing-di… #2 Demo and pipeline: forum.image.sc/t/introducing-… #3 HW extensibility: forum.image.sc/t/introducing-… #4 Unit quantities: forum.image.sc/t/introducing-…

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I've spun-out the framework used in our two-photon microscopy for cancer surgery into a set of packages called Dirigo: github.com/dirigo-develop… While it's a work in progress, I've been trying to write weekly-ish posts on design and features: Post #1 ...

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Tim Weber @timdweber

a year ago

Obligatory post mentioning I'm moving to the other place. See you there..

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Tim Weber @timdweber

a year ago

@voigtvision @tripletimaging @jdwong_campos @Mackenzie_then Fun to consider! but looking forward to the peer reviewed version

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Tim Weber @timdweber

a year ago

@voigtvision @tripletimaging @jdwong_campos @Mackenzie_then This is very interesting but a potential concern is excess phototoxicity from intentional triplet state formation. Another thing is the observed power scaling of ~1.6 will be much worse than 2P in practice.

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Tim Weber @timdweber

2 years ago

Looks interesting: <$1000 gigasample/sec software-defined oscilloscope crowdsupply.com/eevengers/thun…

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Tim Weber @timdweber

2 years ago

@_FeiXia_ @UCIrvine I like your logo! and Congrats~!

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Tim Weber @timdweber

2 years ago

@MuraliV72899596 What is an analogous recalibration in PrCa?

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Bisi Bell @MuyinatuBell

2 years ago

👀 Some of the proposed institute names are too general… National Institute on Body Systems Research? Some seem to lose the range of funded activities… NICHD to National Institute for Disability Related Research? 🤔 Others stay as is. Full report: d1dth6e84htgma.cloudfront.net/NIH_Reform_Rep…

AIMBE @aimbe

2 years ago

A new congressional blueprint for restructuring the NIH has been released. It proposes consolidating NIH's 27 IC's and centers into 15 categories, plus term limits for directors. It adds a national security review to grant apps. Public comments due Aug. 16 energycommerce.house.gov/posts/chair-ro…

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Faisal Mahmood @AI4Pathology

2 years ago

⚡️📣👇Tremendously excited to share our new @CellCellPress article, where we develop TriPath, a method for analyzing 3D pathology samples using weakly supervised AI. Article: authors.elsevier.com/a/1j3RiL7PXqQM-. TriPath enables 3D computational pathology via 3D multiple instance learning allowing AI models to capture intricate morphological details from pathology volumes. Code: github.com/mahmoodlab/Tri… Blog post: linkedin.com/pulse/towards-… Tested on two different imaging modalities, and patient cohorts from two institutions. Our superstar @GreatAndrew90 put in a monumental effort of leading the study, in a fantastic collaboration with @jonliu123 at @UW . Interesting aspects: - Utilizing the whole tissue volume and leveraging 3D deep learning enable superior risk prediction performance compared to 2D deep learning baselines based on a few sampled tissue sections that emulate standard clinical practice. This indicates TriPath can harness additional information provided by 3D tissue morphology. - The performance is also superior to clinical baselines from a reader study that involved six expert pathologists. - The morphologically heterogeneous tissue volume could lead to opposing patient-level outcome predictions, dependent on which portion of the tissue volume is used. This concurs with current clinical literature warning that tissue sampling bias can lead to misdiagnosis. Some limitations: - While the 3D pathology cohort size is unprecedented, it is smaller than typical 2D pathology cohorts. Further large-scale studies will be required for validation. Nevertheless, we believe that this study will initiate a positive cycle, encouraging academic institutions and pharmaceutical companies to contribute large banks of human tissue blocks with paired clinical outcomes, thus speeding up advancements in 3D computational pathology. Concluding insights: We believe that 3D pathology is just around the corner - It has the huge potential to not only augment/improve the current clinical practice centered around 2D examination of human tissue, but also help reveal novel biomarkers for prognosis and therapeutic response.. @harvardmed @harvard_data @MassGenBrigham @broadinstitute

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Tim Weber @timdweber

2 years ago

@RetoPaul 🤫

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Tim Weber @timdweber

2 years ago

@Kaos_Vs_Control It's actually slowed down 30x or so

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Tim Weber @timdweber

2 years ago

Their hypothesis: there is an intermediate state in the photocycle and that promotion to voltage-sensitive state requires excitation via longer wavelengths. 920/1040 nm 2P excitation used before is ineffective. They saw recovery to 1P-levels of voltage sensitivity at 1135 nm.

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Tim Weber @timdweber

2 years ago

New preprint from @AdamEzraCohen's group shows that sensitivity may be recovered if longer wavelengths (beyond that of Ti:sapph, sadly) are used. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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Tim Weber @timdweber

2 years ago

However, for mysterious reasons Voltron loses substantial voltage sensitivity when excited by 2P illumination.

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Tim Weber @timdweber

2 years ago

Voltron 1&2 are excellent voltage indicators, combining the sensitivity/targeting of genetically encoded microbial rhodopsin with the approaching-perfect photophysical performance of engineered organic dyes. However... (gif: doi.org/10.1038/s41593…)

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Tim Weber @timdweber

2 years ago

This is a good idea--using an eyepiece just before the PMT.

Fabian F. Voigt @voigtvision

2 years ago

@timdweber @Thorlabs @PodgorskiLab @brunopichler @Labrigger @ptrrupprecht Many years ago, I started using telescopes composed of a f=90 mm achromat and a 19 mm @TeleVueOptics Panoptic eyepiece made for amateur astronomers for the 5 mm GAsPs detectors.

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Tim Weber @timdweber

2 years ago

@voigtvision @Thorlabs @PodgorskiLab @brunopichler @Labrigger @ptrrupprecht Using them (an earlier eng prototype) successfully! As to whether they will work ok for you, depends on your photon rate and how efficient you need to be. It's definitely a pain to demag a 2 cm aperture onto a 3 mm detector. Look up Mike Giacomelli's papers, JBO and PLOS 1

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Tim Weber @timdweber

2 years ago

@Kevin_W_Bishop @NatureProtocols Amazing render! Is it max projection? When I've tried this on thick specimens max projection makes everything look way too hypercellular