Computational Imaging Research Laboratory

1. Atibi, A., Alqahtani, A and Preza, C., “Enhanced 2D Image Reconstruction for 3D Structured Illumination Microscopy using the Plug-and-Play Priors Framework,” Optics Express, accepted, in print, June 2026.

2. Layazali, S. and Preza, C., “Joint Hyperspectral Image Deconvolution and Unmixing via Plug-and-Play Priors,” Remote Sens., 18 (13), June 2026.

3. Stewart, C., Preza, C., and Ivey, S., “Vertically Integrated Projects, STEM Identity, and Self-Perceived Competence,” Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research (SPUR), 8 (3), doi: 10.18833/spur/8/3/7, 2025.

4. Adaway, D. and Preza, C., “Comparison of two three-dimensional imaging approaches used in fluorescence microscopy, QuaesitUM, 12(1), 10, 2025. (received best paper award)

5. Dabbs, G. and Preza, C., “Noise analysis for hyperspectral unmixing, QuaesitUM, 12(1), 12, 2025.

6. Hossain, M., Younis, M., Robinson, A. L, Wang, L., Preza, C., “Greedy Ensemble Hyperspectral Anomaly Detection,” Journal of Imaging, 10(6), 10.3390/jimaging10060131, 2024.

7. Gimeno-Gomez, A., Dajkhosh, S. P., Van, C. T. S., Barreiro-Hervas, J. C., Preza, C. and. Saavedra, G., “Management of the axial modulation of the illumination pattern in structured illumination microscopy using an extended illumination source,” Optics Express, 31(22), 2023.

8. Adaway, D. J., Magu, B. W., Walton, B. N., Kebede, B. E., Preza, C., “Exploring 3D Structured Illumination Microscopy Images using the ImageJ Software,” Quaesitum, 10, 2023.

9. Iftekharuddin, K., Preza, C., Awwal, A. A. S. and Zelinski, M. E., “Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Optical Information Processing: introduction to the feature issue," Appl. Opt. 61, AIML1-AIML1, 2022.

10. Van, C. T. S., and Preza, C., “Improved resolution in 3D structured illumination microscopy using 3D model-based restoration with positivity-constraint”, Biomedical Optics Express, 12(12), doi.org/10.1364/BOE.442066, 2021.

11. Rahman, M.J., Morshed, B.I., Preza, C., “A Smart Health (sHealth)-Centric Method toward Estimation of Sleep Deficiency Severity from Wearable Sensor Data Fusion,” BioMedInformatics, 1, 106-126, 2021.

12. Shabani, H., Doblas, A., Saavedra, G. and Preza, C., “Optical transfer function engineering for a tunable 3D structured illumination microscope,” Optics Letters, 44(7), 1560-1563, 2019.

13. Doblas, A., Bedoya, S., and Preza, C., “Wollaston prism-based structured illumination microscope with tunable-frequency,” Applied Optics, 58(7), B1-B8, 2019.

14. Doblas, A., Shabani, H., Saavedra, G. and Preza, C., “Tunable-frequency three-dimensional structured illumination microscopy with reduced data acquisition,” Optics Express, 26(23), 30476-30491, 2018.

15. King, S. V., Yuan, S. and Preza C., “Performance evaluation of extended depth of field microscopy in the presence of spherical aberration and noise”, J. Biomed. Opt., 23(3), 036016, 2018.

16. Patwary, N., Doblas, A., and Preza, C., “Image restoration approach to address reduced modulation contrast in structured illumination microscopy,” Biomed. Opt. Express 9(4), 1630-1647, 2018.

17. Shabani, H., Doblas, A., Saavedra, G., Preza, C., “Improvement of two-dimensional structured illumination microscopy with an incoherent illumination pattern of tunable frequency,” Applied Optics, 57(7), B92-B101, 2018.

18. Patwary, N., Shabani, H., Doblas, A., Saavedra, G., and Preza, C.,” Experimental validation of a customized phase mask designed to enable efficient computational optical sectioning microscopy through wavefront encoding,” Applied Optics, Modern Imaging feature, 56(9), D14-D23, doi: 10.1364/AO.56.000D14, 2017.

19. Patwary, N., King, S. V., Saavedra, G., and Preza, C., Reducing effects of aberration in 3D fluorescence imaging using wavefront coding with a radially symmetric phase mask”, Optics Express, 24(12), 12905-12921, doi: 10.1364/OE.24.012905, 2016.

20. Ghosh, S. and Preza, C., “Three-Dimensional Block-Based Restoration Integrated with Wide-field Fluorescence Microscopy for the Investigation of Thick Specimens with Spatially Variant Refractive Index,” J. Biomed. Opt., 21(4), 046010, doi: 10.1117/1.JBO.21.4.046010, 2016

Preza, C., King, S. V., Dragomir, N. M., Cogswell, C. J., “Phase Imaging Microscopy – Beyond Darkfield, Phase and Differential Interference Contrast (DIC) Microscopy,” in Handbook of Biomedical Optics, Boas, D. A., Pitris C., and Ramanujam, N., eds., Taylor and Francis Books, 2011.

1. Hossain, M., Robinson, A. L, Preza, C., and Wang, L., “Hybrid Neural Ensembles for Robust Hyperspectral Anomaly Detection through Domain Adaptation and Generalization,” under review, Sensors Special issue on Advanced Neural Architectures for Anomaly Detection in Sensory Data, April 2026.

2. Park, J. H., Wickman, R., Yunis, O., Hyun, D., Preza, C., and Herickhoff, C. D., “A Machine Learning Approach to Aid Abdominal Sound Speed Estimation,” Ultrasonic Imaging, under revision, 2026.

1. Stewart, C., Preza, C., and Ivey, S., “Three Years of Lessons Learned from an NSF-IUSE Funded Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Program at University of Memphis,” 2026 ASEE Annual Conference, 2026. - accepted

2. Atibi, A., Alqahtani, A., and Preza, C., “Tunable 3D structured illumination microscopy (TSIM) system with fast single-slice processing,” in Optica Imaging Congress 2024 (3D, AOMS, COSI, ISA, pcAOP), IW4D.4, https://doi.org/10.1364/ISA.2025.IW4D.4, 2025

3. Hossain, M., Robinson, A. L, Wang, L., and Preza, C., “Improving semantic segmentation through task adaptation for UAV hyperspectral agricultural imagery,” Proc. SPIE 13475, Autonomous Air and Ground Sensing Systems for Agricultural Optimization and Phenotyping X, 1347507 https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3053426, 2025.

4. Stewart, C., Preza, C., and Ivey, S., “Board # 306: Two Years of Lessons Learned from an NSF-IUSE Funded Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Program at University of Memphis,” 2025 ASEE Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada, 2025.

5. Atibi, A., Alqahtani, A., and Preza, C., “Integration of the plug and play image reconstruction method with a novel tunable structured illumination microscope,” in Three-Dimensional and Multidimensional Microscopy: Image Acquisition and Processing XXXII, SPIE Proc. Vol. 13325, 133250B https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3042277, 2025.

6. Park, J. H., Wickman, R., Yunis, O., Hyun, D., Preza, C., and Herickhoff, C. D., “Abdominal sound speed estimation through machine learning,” 2024 IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Joint Symposium (UFFC-JS 2024), Taipei, Taiwan, 2024, pp. 1-3, doi: 10.1109/UFFC-JS60046.2024.10794120, 2024.

7. Hossain, M., Robinson, A. L, Wang, L., Preza, C., Investigation of unsupervised and supervised hyperspectral anomaly detection,” Proc. SPIE 13138, Applications of Machine Learning 2024, 1313817, https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3029916, 2024.

8. Stewart, C., Preza, C., and Ivey, S., “Board 357: Psychosocial and Skills-Based Outcomes of Participating in Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP),” 2024 ASEE Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon, https://strategy.asee.org/46940, 2024.

9. Atibi, A., Alqahtani, A. and Preza, C., "Image Reconstruction in Structured Illumination Microscopy Using The Plug-and-Play Methods," in Optica Imaging Congress 2024 (3D, AOMS, COSI, ISA, pcAOP), Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 2024), paper CTh5A.2, https://doi.org/10.1364/COSI.2024.CTh5A.2, 2024.

10. Atibi, A., Alqahtani, A. and Preza, C., "Assessment of a Novel Tunable 3D Structured Illumination Microscopy (TSIM) System," in Optica Imaging Congress 2024 (3D, AOMS, COSI, ISA, pcAOP), Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 2024), paper IM3G.4, https://opg.optica.org/abstract.cfm?URI=ISA-2024-IM3G.4, 2024.

11. Atibi, A., Alqahtani, A., M. Younis and Preza, C., “Impact of regularization on achieved resolution in 3D tunable structured illumination microscopy (TSIM),” 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), Athens, Greece, 2024, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/ISBI56570.2024.10635764, 2024.

12. Kabede, B. and Preza, C., “Improved resolution in 3D structured illumination microscopy using a 3D-based U-Net,” in Optica Imaging Congress (3D, COSI, DH, FLatOptics, IS, pcAOP), Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group), paper ITu2E.3, 2023.

13. Dajkhosh, S. P., M. Hossain, and Preza, C., "USR: Unrolled Super-Resolution with Deep Priors for Structured Illumination Microscopy," in Optica Imaging Congress (3D, COSI, DH, FLatOptics, IS, pcAOP), Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group), paper JTu4A.42, 2023.

14. Preza, C., Ivey, S. and Stewart, C., “Board 314: Implementing the Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Model at a Public Urban Research University in the Southeastern United States,” 2023 ASEE Annual Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, 2023.

15. Van, C. T. S. and Preza, C., “3D model-based restoration for structured illumination microscopy based on a 3D illumination pattern,” Imaging and Applied Optics Congress 2021, OSA Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, 2021), paper 3Th4D. 1, 2021.

16. Mohammed, J., Van, C. T. S., and Preza, C., “Evaluation of different illumination designs for tunable 3D structured illumination microscopy through model-based restoration,” Proc. SPIE 11649, Three-Dimensional and Multidimensional Microscopy: Image Acquisition and Processing XXVIII, 116490M, https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2586217, 2021.

17. Kessler, E., Braasch, L. G., Tollefsen, D., and Preza, C., “Creation of an Inventory Assessing Epistemic Beliefs about the Co-Construction of Knowledge in Team Science Contexts, Proceedings of the 15th International Conference of the Learning Sciences-ICLS 2021.

18. Van, C. T. S., Shabani, H., and Preza, C., “Experimental Verification of 3D Model-Based Restoration for 3D-SIM with Data Reduction,” in Imaging and Applied Optics 2020 (COSI) of OSA Technical Digest Series (Optical Society of America, 2020), paper CF4C.3, 2020.

19. Van, C. T. S., Shabani, H., and Preza, C., “Improved resolution in structured illumination microscopy with 3D model-based restoration,” Computational Optical Imaging workshop at the 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2020), Iowa City, Iowa, April 3, 2020.

20. Shabani, H., Labouesse, S., Sentenac, A. and Preza, C., “Three-dimensional deconvolution based on axial-scanning model for structured illumination microscopy,” 2019 IEEE 16th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2019), Venice, Italy, pp. 552-555, 2019.

1. Adaway, D., Atibi, A., and Preza, C., “Improved optical sectioning in ApoTome microscopy using a computational method that integrates physical and learned models,”

1. “Computational imaging enables engineering of 3D microscopy systems with improved performance,” Invited talk presented at the Dept. of Electrical and Systems Engineering Seminar Series, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, November 14, 2025.

2. “Computational imaging enables engineering of efficient 3D microscopy systems,” Invited talk presented at the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering Seminar Series, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus, October 13, 2025.

3. “Efficient image restoration in 3D structured illumination microscopy using plug and play methods to integrate physical and learned models,” Invited talk presented at the Carpathian Biophotonics Meeting (CBM 2025), Sinaia, Romania, September 9, 2025.

4. “Computational imaging enables efficient structured illumination microscopy,” Invited talk presented at the International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP 2025), University of Toronto, Toronto, July 21, 2025.

5. “Engineering 3D microscopy systems using computational imaging,” Invited Plenary talk at the Annual International Conference on Optics, Photonics, and Lasers (AICOPL2025), Rome, Italy, March 13, 2025.

6. “Optical-transfer function engineering for 3D structured illumination microscopy,” Invited talk presented at Computational Optical Sensing and Imaging, 2022 Optica Imaging and Applied Optics Congress, Vancouver, Canada, July 12, 2022.

7. “Engineering microscopes using computational imaging,” Invited talk at the weekly seminar series hosted by the Stanford Center for Image Systems Engineering (SCIEN), at Stanford University, Stanford, California, May 18, 2022.

8. “Becoming an Electrical and Computer Engineering professor: my journey as a woman in academia,” Invited Keynote talk at the Mentoring for Leadership Luncheon event, organized by the Evidence-informed Promotion of Inclusive Climate (EPIC) Project, at the Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana, April 29, 2022.

9. “3D model-based restoration for structured illumination microscopy based on a 3D illumination pattern,” Invited talk presented at the 3D Image Acquisition and Display: Technology, Perception and Applications conference of the OSA Imaging and Applied Optics Congress, virtual, July 22, 2021.

10. “Model-based restoration for 3D structured illumination microscopy with reduced data,” Invited talk presented at Computational Microscopy with Applications to Materials and other Scientific Problems, SIAM Conference on Imaging Sciences, Toronto, Canada (virtual), July 13, 2020.

11. “Recent Advances in 3D structured illumination microscopy with reduced data-acquisition”, Invited talk presented at the Recent Progress in Computational Microscopy session of the Computational Imaging XVIII Conference, Burlingame, CA, Jan 28, 2020.

12. “Recent advances in 3D structured illumination microscopy,” Invited talk presented at the Dept. of Physics Seminar Series, The University of Houston, Houston, TX, November 13, 2018.

13. “Recent advances in tunable 3D structured illumination microscopy,” Invited talk presented at 20th Anniversary International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks ICTON 2018, University Politehnica Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania, July 1-5, 2018.

14. “Computational and computational-optical approaches to improve 3D imaging in fluorescence microscopy,” Invited talk presented at SPIE Commercial & Scientific Sensing and Imaging, Orlando, Florida, April 15-19, 2018.

15. “Computational 3D microscopy: beyond deconvolution microscopy,” Invited talk presented at the 25th Symposium of SPIE Three-Dimensional and Multidimensional Microscopy: Image Acquisition and Processing XXV, San Francisco, CA, January 29, 2018.

16. “3D Image Restoration Using Multiple Space-Varying Point Spread Functions,” Invited talk presented at Mathematics in Imaging of the OSA Imaging and Applied Optics Congress, San Francisco, CA, June 26-29, 2017.

17. “Computational microscopy of optically thick samples,” Invited talk presented at the International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP) 2017, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, May 12-14, 2017.

18. “Computational imaging for 3-D microscopy of thick samples,” Invited talk presented at the 14th Annual Advanced Imaging Methods (AIM) Workshop, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, January 24-27, 2017.

19. “Digital Imaging Principles,” Invited Lecture presented at the Optical Microscopy and Imaging in Biomedical Sciences course at the Marine Biology Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, September 12, 2016 and September 11, 2017.

20. “Advances in computational imaging for quantitative 3D fluorescence microscopy,” Invited talk presented at the Golden Jubilee Annual Meeting of the Israeli Society for Microscopy (ISM), Haifa, Israel, May 2016.