FluoCLIP: Stain-Aware Focus Quality Assessment in Fluorescence Microscopy
Park, Hyejin, Yoon, Jiwon, Park, Sumin, Kim, Suree, Jang, Sinae, Lee, Eunsoo, Kang, Dongmin, Min, Dongbo
原文摘要
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 support this formulation, we introduce FluoMix, the first dataset for stain-aware FQA spanning multiple tissues, fluorescent stains, and focus levels. We further propose FluoCLIP, a two-stage vision-language framework that grounds stain semantics and enables stain-conditioned ordinal reasoning for focus prediction, effectively decoupling stain representation from ordinal structure. By explicitly modeling stain-dependent focus behavior, FluoCLIP consistently outperforms both conventional FQA methods and recent vision-language baselines, demonstrating strong generalization across diverse fluorescence microscopy conditions. Code and dataset are publicly available at https://fluoclip.github.io/.
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Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2026 · 正式发表