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4 July 2023 Untrained neural network enhances the resolution of structured illumination microscopy under strong background and noise levels
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Abstract

Structured illumination microscopy (SIM) has been widely applied in the superresolution imaging of subcellular dynamics in live cells. Higher spatial resolution is expected for the observation of finer structures. However, further increasing spatial resolution in SIM under the condition of strong background and noise levels remains challenging. Here, we report a method to achieve deep resolution enhancement of SIM by combining an untrained neural network with an alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) framework, i.e., ADMM-DRE-SIM. By exploiting the implicit image priors in the neural network and the Hessian prior in the ADMM framework associated with the optical transfer model of SIM, ADMM-DRE-SIM can further realize the spatial frequency extension without the requirement of training datasets. Moreover, an image degradation model containing the convolution with equivalent point spread function of SIM and additional background map is utilized to suppress the strong background while keeping the structure fidelity. Experimental results by imaging tubulins and actins show that ADMM-DRE-SIM can obtain the resolution enhancement by a factor of ∼1.6 compared to conventional SIM, evidencing the promising applications of ADMM-DRE-SIM in superresolution biomedical imaging.

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Yu He, Yunhua Yao, Yilin He, Zhengqi Huang, Dalong Qi, Chonglei Zhang, Xiaoshuai Huang, Kebin Shi, Pengpeng Ding, Chengzhi Jin, Lianzhong Deng, Zhenrong Sun, Xiaocong Yuan, and Shian Zhang "Untrained neural network enhances the resolution of structured illumination microscopy under strong background and noise levels," Advanced Photonics Nexus 2(4), 046005 (4 July 2023). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.APN.2.4.046005
Received: 10 February 2023; Accepted: 14 June 2023; Published: 4 July 2023
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KEYWORDS
Resolution enhancement technologies

Image resolution

Image enhancement

Neural networks

Image processing

Background noise

Image restoration

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