The paper authored by Dr DAI Bo, 'Ultrafast cell edge detection by line-scan time-stretch microscopy' was published and highlighted on the cover of the Journal of Biophotonics on 8th January. (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jbio.201800044) Dr DAI Bo is the programme leader for industrial electronics and control engineering (EEE) at SBC, and is also from our Chinese partner university, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology (USST). His work was in collaboration with researchers from USST, Fudan University and Heriot-Watt University in the UK. The Journal of Biophotonics is the first international journal dedicated to publishing original articles and reviews in the rapidly developing field of biophotonics, which is concerned with the development and application of photonic technologies for medical, life and environmental sciences.
The paper is concerned with the application of a novel ultrafast imaging technique for edge detection and demonstrates its use for identifying red blood cells, lung cancer cells and breast cancer cells. Since the edge detection is implemented in the physical layer, the computational complexity in the back-end digital signal processing is very low and is therefore fast. The edges of the objects can be clearly visualized and the cancerous cells present completely different edges compared with normal cells. Cancerous cells can therefore be easily identified by distinguishing the edges. These characteristics make the imaging system for edge detection a good candidate for high-throughput cell classification in a clinical setting.
Dr DAI Bo, Associate professor from the School of Optical-Electrical and Computer Engineering of USST. He started teaching on the programme of Digital Signal Processing (Bilingual) at SBC in 2014 and formally became the Chinese Programme Leader of EEE in 2018. He received an Honorary Bachelor of Engineering, City University of Hong Kong in 2009, and a PhD from the Institute of Photonics and Quantum Sciences at Heriot-Watt University in the UK, in 2013. He won the title of “Pujiang Talent ①” and “Chenguang Scholar ②”. He became the vice chairman of the Holographic and Information Processing Committee, China Instrument and Control Society in 2006. His research interests include ultra-precision machining, optical flow control technology and optical imaging. He has published over 40 SCI papers and 30 international conference papers, also obtained 5 national invention patents and 3 software copyrights.
The Sino-British College enjoys resources from USST and 9 UK partner universities. Equipped with high-quality teachers, SBC always combines theoretical education with practical training. Professor DAI's achievement marks a major breakthrough in the scientific research of Industrial Electronics and Control Engineering at SBC. The college will take this opportunity to speed up the development of scientific research, the cultivation of internationalized innovative talents and the deepening of cooperative education in academic exchange, teaching quality and college management. Our vision is to be renowned as an international hub and as a centre of excellence, attracting students and faculty from all over the world, with a reputation for developing socially responsible and innovative leaders capable of operating in different cultures.
① Pujiang Talent：This plan is co-founded by the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality (STCSM) and Shanghai Human Resource Bureau to attract overseas talents to teach, do research or start enterprises in Shanghai.
② Chenguang Scholar：This plan is co-founded by the Shanghai Association For Science And Technology (SAST) to support youth science talents and scientific researches, promote the construction of a globally science and technology innovation centre in Shanghai.
