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Ruipeng Guo

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Point Spread Function Engineering Using Implicit Neural Representations

Point spread function (PSF) engineering through pupil plane modulation is a technique used in microscopy to achieve specific imaging properties, such as depth encoding or extended depth of field. Existing PSF design methods often rely on extensive domain knowledge and task-specific basis functions, making it difficult to generalize across different applications. We treat the PSF engineering task as a phase retrieval problem and propose a neural field pupil design method that optimizes a phase profile for any arbitrary, user-defined 3D PSF distribution. This provides a flexible framework for 3D PSF engineering for various applications with implicit regularization that proves robust to initialization compared to pixel-wise optimization methods

physics.optics

DeepFilters: Scattering-Aware Pupil Engineering with Learned Digital Filter Reconstruction for Extended Depth of Field Microscopy

Extended depth of field microscopy encodes axial information into a single acquisition through engineered point spread functions, but conventional and deep optics approaches are subject to degradation in scattering tissue. We introduce DeepFilters, a scattering-aware deep optics framework that jointly optimizes a parameterized pupil filter and a digital-filter-based reconstruction network through a calibrated differentiable forward model to achieve broad generalization without retraining. Incorporating empirical scattering kernels, physics-guided regularization, and a hybrid genetic-gradient initialization strategy, DeepFilters extends the PSF from 16 micron to >400 micron in clear media and enables signal recovery beyond 120 micron deep in biological tissues, validated across fixed brain slices and sea urchin embryos.

physics.optics

Coordinate-conditioned Deconvolution for Scalable Spatially Varying High-Throughput Imaging

Wide-field fluorescence microscopy with compact optics often suffers from spatially varying blur due to field-dependent aberrations, vignetting, and sensor truncation, while finite sensor sampling imposes an inherent trade-off between field of view (FOV) and resolution. Computational Miniaturized Mesoscope (CM2) alleviate the sampling limit by multiplexing multiple sub-views onto a single sensor, but introduce view crosstalk and a highly ill-conditioned inverse problem compounded by spatially variant point spread functions (PSFs). Prior learning-based spatially varying (SV) reconstruction methods typically rely on global SV operators with fixed input sizes, resulting in memory and training costs that scale poorly with image dimensions. We propose SV-CoDe (Spatially Varying Coordinate-conditioned Deconvolution), a scalable deep learning framework that achieves uniform, high-resolution reconstruction across a 6.5 mm FOV. Unlike conventional methods, SV-CoDe employs coordinate-conditioned convolutions to locally adapt reconstruction kernels; this enables patch-based training that decouples parameter count from FOV size. SV-CoDe achieves the best image quality in both simulated and experimental measurements while requiring 10x less model size and 10x less training data than prior baselines. Trained purely on physics-based simulations, the network robustly generalizes to bead phantoms, weakly scattering brain slices, and freely moving C. elegans. SV-CoDe offers a scalable, physics-aware solution for correcting SV blur in compact optical systems and is readily extendable to a broad range of biomedical imaging applications.

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Wide-Field, High-Resolution Reconstruction in Computational Multi-Aperture Miniscope Using a Fourier Neural Network

Traditional fluorescence microscopy is constrained by inherent trade-offs among resolution, field-of-view, and system complexity. To navigate these challenges, we introduce a simple and low-cost computational multi-aperture miniature microscope, utilizing a microlens array for single-shot wide-field, high-resolution imaging. Addressing the challenges posed by extensive view multiplexing and non-local, shift-variant aberrations in this device, we present SV-FourierNet, a novel multi-channel Fourier neural network. SV-FourierNet facilitates high-resolution image reconstruction across the entire imaging field through its learned global receptive field. We establish a close relationship between the physical spatially-varying point-spread functions and the network's learned effective receptive field. This ensures that SV-FourierNet has effectively encapsulated the spatially-varying aberrations in our system, and learned a physically meaningful function for image reconstruction. Training of SV-FourierNet is conducted entirely on a physics-based simulator. We showcase wide-field, high-resolution video reconstructions on colonies of freely moving C. elegans and imaging of a mouse brain section. Our computational multi-aperture miniature microscope, augmented with SV-FourierNet, represents a major advancement in computational microscopy and may find broad applications in biomedical research and other fields requiring compact microscopy solutions.

physics.optics

EventLFM: Event Camera integrated Fourier Light Field Microscopy for Ultrafast 3D imaging

Ultrafast 3D imaging is indispensable for visualizing complex and dynamic biological processes. Conventional scanning-based techniques necessitate an inherent trade-off between acquisition speed and space-bandwidth product (SBP). Emerging single-shot 3D wide-field techniques offer a promising alternative but are bottlenecked by the synchronous readout constraints of conventional CMOS systems, thus restricting data throughput to maintain high SBP at limited frame rates. To address this, we introduce EventLFM, a straightforward and cost-effective system that overcomes these challenges by integrating an event camera with Fourier light field microscopy (LFM), a state-of-the-art single-shot 3D wide-field imaging technique. The event camera operates on a novel asynchronous readout architecture, thereby bypassing the frame rate limitations inherent to conventional CMOS systems. We further develop a simple and robust event-driven LFM reconstruction algorithm that can reliably reconstruct 3D dynamics from the unique spatiotemporal measurements captured by EventLFM. Experimental results demonstrate that EventLFM can robustly reconstruct fast-moving and rapidly blinking 3D fluorescent samples at kHz frame rates. Furthermore, we highlight EventLFM's capability for imaging of blinking neuronal signals in scattering mouse brain tissues and 3D tracking of GFP-labeled neurons in freely moving C. elegans. We believe that the combined ultrafast speed and large 3D SBP offered by EventLFM may open up new possibilities across many biomedical applications.

physics.optics

A needle-based deep-neural-network camera

We experimentally demonstrate a camera whose primary optic is a cannula (diameter=0.22mm and length=12.5mm) that acts a lightpipe transporting light intensity from an object plane (35cm away) to its opposite end. Deep neural networks (DNNs) are used to reconstruct color and grayscale images with field of view of 180 and angular resolution of ~0.40. When trained on images with depth information, the DNN can create depth maps. Finally, we show DNN-based classification of the EMNIST dataset without and with image reconstructions. The former could be useful for imaging with enhanced privacy.

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3D Computational Cannula Fluorescence Microscopy enabled by Artificial Neural Networks

Computational Cannula Microscopy (CCM) is a high-resolution widefield fluorescence imaging approach deep inside tissue, which is minimally invasive. Rather than using conventional lenses, a surgical cannula acts as a lightpipe for both excitation and fluorescence emission, where computational methods are used for image visualization. Here, we enhance CCM with artificial neural networks to enable 3D imaging of cultured neurons and fluorescent beads, the latter inside a volumetric phantom. We experimentally demonstrate transverse resolution of ~6um, field of view ~200um and axial sectioning of ~50um for depths down to ~700um, all achieved with computation time of ~3ms/frame on a laptop computer.

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Computational Cannula Microscopy of neurons using Neural Networks

Computational Cannula Microscopy is a minimally invasive imaging technique that can enable high-resolution imaging deep inside tissue. Here, we apply artificial neural networks to enable fast, power-efficient image reconstructions that are more efficiently scalable to larger fields of view. Specifically, we demonstrate widefield fluorescence microscopy of cultured neurons and fluorescent beads with field of view of 200$\mu$m (diameter) and resolution of less than 10$\mu$m using a cannula of diameter of only 220$\mu$m. In addition, we show that this approach can also be extended to macro-photography.

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