From high-throughput imaging to functional insight: lensless imaging moves beyond structure

Jiaming Qian; Jiasong Sun; Qian Chen; Chao Zuo

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From high-throughput imaging to functional insight: lensless imaging moves beyond structure

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- From high-throughput imaging to functional insight: lensless imaging moves beyond structure
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Jiaming Qian, Jiasong Sun, Qian Chen, et al. From high-throughput imaging to functional insight: lensless imaging moves beyond structure[J]. eLight, 2026, 6.
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Jiaming Qian, Jiasong Sun, Qian Chen, et al. From high-throughput imaging to functional insight: lensless imaging moves beyond structure[J]. eLight, 2026, 6. DOI： 10.1186/s43593-026-00129-w.

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Abstract

Lensless imaging offers a scalable

hardware-light route to optical microscopy but has largely remained structural. In a recent study

Wang et al

demonstrate that molecular specificity can be intrinsically encoded and computationally recovered within a fully lensless framework. This work reframes lensless imaging from scaling structure to encoding function

highlighting an emerging paradigm in which optical simplicity and information completeness are co-designed through optics and computation.

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