Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, Volume. 18, Issue 2, 2343003(2025)

Generating bright-field images of stained tissue slices from Mueller matrix polarimetric images with CycleGAN using unpaired dataset

Jiahao Fan1, Nan Zeng1, Honghui He1、*, Chao He2、**, Shaoxiong Liu3, and Hui Ma1
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  • 1Shenzhen Key Laboratory for Minimal Invasive Medical Technologies, Guangdong Research Center of Polarization Imaging and Measurement Engineering Technology Institute of Biopharmaceutical and Health Engineering, Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen 518055, P. R. China
  • 2Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
  • 3Shenzhen Sixth People’s Hospital (Nanshan Hospital), Huazhong University of Science and Technology Union Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen 518052, P. R. China
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    Recently, Mueller matrix (MM) polarimetric imaging-assisted pathology detection methods are showing great potential in clinical diagnosis. However, since our human eyes cannot observe polarized light directly, it raises a notable challenge for interpreting the measurement results by pathologists who have limited familiarity with polarization images. One feasible approach is to combine MM polarimetric imaging with virtual staining techniques to generate standardized stained images, inheriting the advantages of information-abundant MM polarimetric imaging. In this study, we develop a model using unpaired MM polarimetric images and bright-field images for generating standard hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) stained tissue images. Compared with the existing polarization virtual staining techniques primarily based on the model training with paired images, the proposed Cycle-Consistent Generative Adversarial Networks (CycleGAN)-based model simplifies data acquisition and data preprocessing to a great extent. The outcomes demonstrate the feasibility of training CycleGAN with unpaired polarization images and their corresponding bright-field images as a viable approach, which provides an intuitive manner for pathologists for future polarization-assisted digital pathology.

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    Jiahao Fan, Nan Zeng, Honghui He, Chao He, Shaoxiong Liu, Hui Ma. Generating bright-field images of stained tissue slices from Mueller matrix polarimetric images with CycleGAN using unpaired dataset[J]. Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, 2025, 18(2): 2343003

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    Paper Information

    Category: Research Articles

    Received: Nov. 27, 2023

    Accepted: Jan. 29, 2024

    Published Online: Apr. 7, 2025

    The Author Email: Honghui He (he.honghui@sz.tsinghua.edu.cn), Chao He (chao.he@eng.ox.ac.uk)

    DOI:10.1142/S1793545823430034

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