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Correction of out-of-focus microscopic images by deep learning

26 Apr 2022Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal 2022 4archive 2025-07-28

Chi Zhang, Hao Jiang, Weihuang Liu, Junyi Li, Shiming Tang, Mario Juhas, Yang Zhang.

Motivation Microscopic images are widely used in basic biomedical research, disease diagnosis and medical discovery. Obtaining high-quality in-focus microscopy images has been a cornerstone of the microscopy. However, images obtained by microscopes are often out-of-focus, resulting in poor performance in research and diagnosis. Results To solve the out-of-focus issue in microscopy, we developed a Cycle Generative Adversarial Network (CycleGAN) based model and a multi-component weighted loss function. We train and test our network in two self-collected datasets, namely Leishmania parasite dataset captured by a bright-field microscope, and bovine pulmonary artery endothelial cells (BPAEC) captured by a confocal fluorescence microscope. In comparison to other GAN-based deblurring methods, the proposed model reached state-of-the-art performance in correction. Another publicly available dataset, human cells dataset from the Broad Bioimage Benchmark Collection is used for evaluating the generalization abilities of the model. Our model showed excellent generalization capability, which could transfer to different types of microscopic image datasets. Availability and Implementation Code and dataset are publicly available at: https://github.com/jiangdat/COMI.

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