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Editorial: Artificial intelligence in microbial and microscopic analysis

Jinghua Zhang, Jia Guo, Qing Liu, Fan Liu

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2026

Abstract

Artificial intelligence in microbial and microscopic analysisArtificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the way researchers observe, quantify, and interpret microbial and microscopic systems.Microscopy, sequencing, physiological signals, clinical records, and multi-source biomedical data now provide increasingly rich descriptions of biological and clinical processes.However, their complexity also challenges conventional manual or rule-based analysis.AI-driven methods offer new opportunities to extract discriminative features, integrate heterogeneous information, improve diagnostic and monitoring workflows, and generate reproducible evidence across microbiology, microscopic imaging, bioinformatics, and clinical decision support.The Research Topic "Artificial intelligence in microbial and microscopic analysis" was launched to collect methodological advances and practical applications that connect AI with microbial, microscopic, and biomedical analysis.The 15 articles in this Research Topic demonstrate the breadth of this interdisciplinary field, spanning environmental microorganism recognition, antimicrobial resistance surveillance, microbiome-based disease prediction, medical microscopic image analysis, multimodal single-cell analysis, physiological signal interpretation, precision measurement, and domain-specific AI systems.Together, these contributions show how AI can support both biological discovery and clinically oriented decision-making.A significant portion of the…

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