While that is possible, it would be quite slow, as it would mean reading the folder listing of every sub-folder each time you change to a new directory. If there are a lot of sub-folders, and/or they contain a lot of files, it might take a long time. It would also need some scripting (but I think there is already a script on the forum somewhere, although I couldn't find it from a very quick search).
If you just want to highlight empty folders, that has some overhead but a bit less (it'll only need to check if the folders contain anything, not list their entire contents). How to do that is here, but note that it won't differentiate folders which are literally empty from ones which contain only sub-folders or zero-byte files: