MUSE system mainly serves as a low-cost alternative to traditional histological analysis for cancer diagnostics with simpler and less time-consuming techniques. By integrating microscopy and fresh tissue fluorescence staining into an automated optical system, the overall acquiring time needed for getting digital images with diagnostic values can be much shortened into the scale of minutes comparing with conventional pathology, where general procedure can take from hours to days. The color-mapping techniques that correlated fluorescence staining to traditional H&E staining provide the same visual representation to pathologists based on existing knowledge with no need for additional training on image recognition.
Additionally, this system also has great potential to be used for intraoperative consultation, a method performed in pathologists lab that examine the microscopic features of tissue during oncological surgery usually for rapid cancer lesion and margin detection. It also can play an important role in biological and medical research, which might require examination on cellular features of tissue samples. In the future, the system can be further optimized to include more features including staining protocol, LEDs wavelength for more research usages and applications.