AI RESEARCH
FluoCLIP: Stain-Aware Focus Quality Assessment in Fluorescence Microscopy
arXiv CS.CV
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ArXi:2602.23791v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Accurate focus quality assessment (FQA) in fluorescence microscopy is challenging due to stain-dependent optical variations that induce heterogeneous focus behavior across images. Existing methods, however, treat focus quality as a stain-agnostic problem, assuming a shared global ordering. We formulate stain-aware FQA for fluorescence microscopy, showing that focus-rank relationships vary substantially across stains due to stain-dependent imaging characteristics and invalidate this assumption. To this formulation, we.