Laser speckle imaging for visualization of hidden effects for early detection of antibacterial susceptibility in disc diffusion tests

I Balmages, A Reinis, S Kistkins, D Bliznuks… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Rapid identification of effective antibiotic treatment is crucial for increasing patient survival
and preventing the formation of new antibiotic-resistant bacteria due to preventative …

Tools for classification of growing/non-growing bacterial colonies using laser speckle imaging

I Balmages, J Liepins, S Zolins, D Bliznuks… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Prior research has indicated the feasibility of assessing growth—associated activity in
bacterial colonies through the application of laser speckle imaging techniques. A subpixel …

Bacterial colony size growth estimation by deep learning

SÁ Nagy, L Makrai, I Csabai, D Tőzsér, G Szita… - BMC microbiology, 2023 - Springer
The bacterial growth rate is important for pathogenicity and food safety. Therefore, the study
of bacterial growth rate over time can provide important data from a medical and veterinary …

[HTML][HTML] Accurate estimation of the inhibition zone of antibiotics based on laser speckle imaging and multiple random speckle illumination

D Kim, J Lee, J Yoon - Computers in Biology and Medicine, 2024 - Elsevier
The antimicrobial susceptibility test (AST) plays a crucial role in selecting appropriate
antibiotics for the treatment of bacterial infections in patients. The diffusion disk method is …

Dynamic laser speckle imaging for fast evaluation of the antibacterial susceptibility by the disc diffusion method

I Lihacova, I Balmages, A Reinis, S Kistkins… - … -Baltic Conference on …, 2023 - Springer
Phenotypic resistance tests eg, disc diffusion method require 16–24 h to obtain the results,
while the PCR tests provide only genotypic type of antibacterial resistance. New methods …

Determination of operating parameters of fungal growth signals analyzed by laser speckle contrast imaging

I Balmages, A Reinis, S Kistkins… - … , and Imaging III, 2024 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Our previous studies have shown that laser speckle imaging with sensitive subpixel
correlation analysis is able to detect bacterial growth activity and the pattern of colony …