{"id":20,"date":"2025-10-06T20:37:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T00:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/hao-chen\/?page_id=20"},"modified":"2026-10-23T01:45:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T05:45:58","slug":"projects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/hao-chen\/projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Publications<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=u5AHuZYAAAAJ\">Google Scholar<\/a> for a full, up-to-date list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol reversed class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Hao Chen<\/strong>, Renzheng Zhang, Scott S. Howard. \u201cDAPS++: Rethinking Diffusion Inverse Problems with Decoupled Posterior Annealing.\u201d <em>European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)<\/em>, 2026.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2511.17038\">arXiv<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2511.17038\">PDF<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/eccv.ecva.net\/virtual\/2026\/poster\/5944\">ECCV poster<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Julian Najera, <strong>Hao Chen<\/strong>, Scott Howard, Meenal Datta. \u201cUsing Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy to Probe the Metabolic Peritumor Microenvironment and Beyond.\u201d <em>Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering<\/em>, 1\u201316, 2026.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s12195-026-00937-7\">Springer<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s12195-026-00937-7\">DOI<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Hao Chen<\/strong>, Scott S. Howard. \u201cImproving Richardson\u2013Lucy Deconvolution with Diffusion Priors for Fluorescence Microscopy.\u201d <em>arXiv preprint<\/em> arXiv:2606.25924, 2026.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2606.25924\">arXiv<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2606.25924\">PDF<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Julian Najera*, <strong>Hao Chen<\/strong>*, Bianca Batista, Frank Ketchum, Aktar Ali, Pinar Zorlutuna, Scott Howard, Meenal Datta. \u201cInstant fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy reveals mechano-metabolic reprogramming of stromal cells in breast peritumor microenvironment.\u201d <em>iScience<\/em>, 29(6), 115931, 2026. (*Equal contribution)<br><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.isci.2026.115931\">DOI<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/42181268\/\">PubMed<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC13196570\/\">PMC<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biorxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2025.05.28.656717v1\">bioRxiv<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Hao Chen<\/strong>, Julian Najera, Dagmawit Geresu, Meenal Datta, Cody Smith, Scott Howard. \u201cZero-Shot Denoising for Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy with Intensity-Guided Learning.\u201d <em>Proceedings of the IEEE\/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops<\/em>, pp. 4719\u20134728, 2025.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2503.13779\">arXiv<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/openaccess.thecvf.com\/content\/CVPR2025W\/CVMI\/papers\/Chen_Zero-Shot_Denoising_for_Fluorescence_Lifetime_Imaging_Microscopy_with_Intensity-Guided_Learning_CVPRW_2025_paper.pdf\">PDF<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/11147746\/\">IEEE Xplore<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/cvpr.thecvf.com\/media\/cvpr-2025\/Slides\/35477.pdf\">Slides<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Hao Chen<\/strong>, Julian Najera, Alice Burchett, Dagmawit Geresu, Meenal Datta, Scott Howard. \u201cTwo-photon fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy of autofluorescence under cellular differentiation.\u201d <em>Multiphoton Microscopy in the Biomedical Sciences XXV<\/em> (SPIE Photonics West), Proc. SPIE 13324, pp. 99\u2013103, 2025.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1117\/12.3042205\">DOI<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Hao Chen<\/strong>, Julian Najera, Dagmawit Geresu, Meenal Datta, Scott Howard. \u201cExperimental investigation of noise characterization in real-time, multiphoton fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy.\u201d <em>Multiphoton Microscopy in the Biomedical Sciences XXV<\/em> (SPIE Photonics West), Proc. 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