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ArticleNature methods2024

Pretraining a foundation model for generalizable fluorescence microscopy-based image restoration.

Chenxi Ma, Weimin Tan, Ruian He, Bo Yan

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Article in Nature methods, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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Chenxi Ma *School of Computer Science, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Weimin Tan *School of Computer Science, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7677-4772
Ruian HeSchool of Computer Science, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Bo YanSchool of Computer Science, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. byan@fudan.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5692-3486

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 62372117National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) U2001209Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai (Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai Municipality) 21ZR1406600
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fluorescence microscopy-based image restoration has received widespread attention in the life sciences and has led to significant progress, benefiting from deep learning technology. However, most current task-specific methods have limited generalizability to different fluorescence microscopy-based image restoration problems. Here, we seek to improve generalizability and explore the potential of applying a pretrained foundation model to fluorescence microscopy-based image restoration. We provide a universal fluorescence microscopy-based image restoration (UniFMIR) model to address different restoration problems, and show that UniFMIR offers higher image restoration precision, better generalization and increased versatility. Demonstrations on five tasks and 14 datasets covering a wide range of microscopy imaging modalities and biological samples demonstrate that the pretrained UniFMIR can effectively transfer knowledge to a specific situation via fine-tuning, uncover clear nanoscale biomolecular structures and facilitate high-quality imaging. This work has the potential to inspire and trigger new research highlights for fluorescence microscopy-based image restoration.

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Image Processing, Computer-AssistedMicroscopy, FluorescenceAlgorithmsAnimalsDeep LearningHumans

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