Noise reduction in ultra-low light digital holographic microscopy using neural networks

Zhiduo Zhang, Woei Ming Lee*, Lexing Xie, Alex Mathews, Xuefei He

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    Abstract

    Live cell imaging is challenging because the difficult balance of maintaining both cell viability and high signal to noise ratio throughout the entire imaging duration. Label free quantitative light microscopy techniques are powerful tools to image the volumetric activities in living cellular and sub-cellular biological systems, however there are minimal ways to identify phototoxicity. In this paper, we investigate the use of neural network to restore quantitative digital hologram micrographs at ultra-low light levels down to 0.06 ošoŠ/ooš2 which approximately two orders of magnitude lower than sunlight. By developing an adaptive image restoration method specifically tailored for digital holograms, we demonstrated the 2x improvement in SSIM over existing denoising methods. This demonstration could open up new avenues for high resolution holographic microscopy using deep ultraviolet coherent sources and achieve high-resolution imaging with ultralow light illumination.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationBiophotonics Australasia 2019
    EditorsEwa M. Goldys, Brant C. Gibson
    PublisherSPIE
    ISBN (Electronic)9781510631441
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2019
    EventBiophotonics Australasia 2019 - Melbourne, Australia
    Duration: 9 Dec 201912 Dec 2019

    Publication series

    NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
    Volume11202
    ISSN (Print)0277-786X
    ISSN (Electronic)1996-756X

    Conference

    ConferenceBiophotonics Australasia 2019
    Country/TerritoryAustralia
    CityMelbourne
    Period9/12/1912/12/19

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