Three-dimensional neural network driving self-interference digital holography enables high-fidelity, non-scanning volumetric fluorescence microscopy

Abstract: We present a deep learning driven computational approach to overcome the limitations of self-interference digital holography that imposed by inferior axial imaging performances. We demonstrate a 3D deep neural network model can simultaneously suppresses the defocus noise and improves the spatial resolution and signal-to-noise ratio of conventional numerical back-propagation-obtained holographic reconstruction. Compared with existing 2D deep neural networks used for hologram reconstruction, our 3D model exhibits superior performance in enhancing the resolutions along all the three spatial dimensions. As the result, 3D non-scanning volumetric fluorescence microscopy can be achieved, using 2D self-interference hologram as input, without any mechanical and opto-electronic scanning and complicated system calibration. Our method offers a high spatiotemporal resolution 3D imaging approach which can potentially benefit, for example, the visualization of dynamics of cellular structure and measurement of 3D behavior of high-speed flow field.