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ArticleNature methods2020

DeepSTORM3D: dense 3D localization microscopy and PSF design by deep learning.

Elias Nehme, Daniel Freedman, Racheli Gordon, Boris Ferdman, Lucien E Weiss, Onit Alalouf, Tal Naor, Reut Orange, Tomer Michaeli, Yoav Shechtman

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Article in Nature methods, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 123 papers.

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123citing papers in PubMed
42.5field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
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123 citing papers in PubMed, 306 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Elias NehmeDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Technion, Haifa, Israel.
Daniel FreedmanGoogle Research, Haifa, Israel.
Racheli GordonDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Lorry I. Lokey Center for Life Sciences and Engineering, Technion, Haifa, Israel.
Boris FerdmanDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Lorry I. Lokey Center for Life Sciences and Engineering, Technion, Haifa, Israel.
Lucien E WeissDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Lorry I. Lokey Center for Life Sciences and Engineering, Technion, Haifa, Israel.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0971-7329
Onit AlaloufDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Lorry I. Lokey Center for Life Sciences and Engineering, Technion, Haifa, Israel.
Tal NaorDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Lorry I. Lokey Center for Life Sciences and Engineering, Technion, Haifa, Israel.
Reut OrangeDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Lorry I. Lokey Center for Life Sciences and Engineering, Technion, Haifa, Israel.
Tomer MichaeliDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Technion, Haifa, Israel.
Yoav ShechtmanDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Lorry I. Lokey Center for Life Sciences and Engineering, Technion, Haifa, Israel. yoavsh@bm.technion.ac.il.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8498-5203
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology · ILGoogle (Israel) · IL

Funding

European Research Council 802567
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

An outstanding challenge in single-molecule localization microscopy is the accurate and precise localization of individual point emitters in three dimensions in densely labeled samples. One established approach for three-dimensional single-molecule localization is point-spread-function (PSF) engineering, in which the PSF is engineered to vary distinctively with emitter depth using additional optical elements. However, images of dense emitters, which are desirable for improving temporal resolution, pose a challenge for algorithmic localization of engineered PSFs, due to lateral overlap of the emitter PSFs. Here we train a neural network to localize multiple emitters with densely overlapping Tetrapod PSFs over a large axial range. We then use the network to design the optimal PSF for the multi-emitter case. We demonstrate our approach experimentally with super-resolution reconstructions of mitochondria and volumetric imaging of fluorescently labeled telomeres in cells. Our approach, DeepSTORM3D, enables the study of biological processes in whole cells at timescales that are rarely explored in localization microscopy.

Indexed as

Deep LearningBiological PhenomenaImaging, Three-DimensionalNeural Networks, ComputerSingle Molecule ImagingTelomere

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PMID32541853
PMCPMC7610486
OpenAlexW2972808355

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