Optics in Health Care and Biomedical Optics XIV

During the last 1.5 decades there have been significant scientific advances and technology developments in diagnosis, treatment and health care using light. Optical methods are generally noninvasive and sensitive to unique tissue contrast (absorption, scattering, birefringence, fluorescence, and nonlinear signal generation etc.) that complements other biomedical diagnostic technologies. Optical-based instruments/devices can be extremely compact and cost effective, suitable for home, clinic and global health care. The field of biomedical photonics is highly multi-disciplinary and has been attracting more and more researchers from physics, chemistry, electrical engineering, biomedical engineering, computer science, nanotechnology and many other disciplines. The past few years have also witnessed the integration of biomedical photonics with other technologies, such as photo-acoustics, optics-molecular and nano-techniques, optics and MRI, optics and PET, and more recently with artificial intelligence. Clinical applications of emerging biomedical photonics technologies span many areas including ophthalmology, dermatology, cardiology, gastroenterology, dentistry, urology, and neurology, etc. The objective of this conference is to provide a technical forum for engineers, scientists, clinicians, and health care industry and government agencies to report, share and learn the latest fundamental, translational, and clinical research and developments in the field of biomedical optics, and promote cross-disciplinary, institutional, and international collaborations. The topics of this conference are broad and will include but not limited to the following:

• light-tissue/cell interactions: fundamental theories and new methodologies for diagnosis and therapy
• photon therapeutics: photo dynamic therapy, photobiomodulation therapy, laser surgery, other photo therapy and applications
• spectroscopy: refluorescence, Raman, hyperspectral imaging and biomedical applications
• novel microscopy: nonlinear, super-resolution, light-sheet, endoscopy microscopy, LSCI imaging and biomedical applications
• translational optical techniques for basic research and clinical medicine: neurophotonics, diagnosis devices, implantable devices, point-of-care devices
• multimodal biomedical imaging: photo-acoustic imaging, optical-CT, optical-MRI, optical-PET
• nano/biophotonics: nanoparticles and molecular probes for theranostics
• AI in biomedical imaging and diagnostics.