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Medical EngineeringPublished 12 September 2025Confocal fluorescence microscopy for real-time breast cancer diagnosis: current advances and future perspectivesKhushi Vyas · Ahmed Ezzat · Nicholas Holford · Rathi Ramakrishnan · Daniel R. LeffFrontiers in Medical Engineeringdoi 10.3389/fmede.2025.1607453