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ArticleNature biotechnology2026

A neural network for long-term super-resolution imaging of live cells with reliable confidence quantification.

Chang Qiao, Shuran Liu, Yuwang Wang, Wencong Xu, Xiaohan Geng, Tao Jiang, Jingyu Zhang, Quan Meng, Hui Qiao, Dong Li and 1 more

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Article in Nature biotechnology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Chang Qiao *Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6037-0842
Shuran Liu *Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Yuwang Wang *Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6880-959X
Wencong Xu *Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Xiaohan GengNational Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, CAS Center for Excellence in Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Tao JiangNational Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, CAS Center for Excellence in Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Jingyu ZhangDepartment of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Quan MengNational Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, CAS Center for Excellence in Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Hui QiaoDepartment of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. qiaohui@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4896-8657
Dong LiNational Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, CAS Center for Excellence in Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. li-dong@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn.
Qionghai DaiDepartment of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. qhdai@tsinghua.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7043-3061

Funding

China Postdoctoral Science Foundation 2022M721842China Postdoctoral Science Foundation 2023T160365Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China (Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology) 2020AA0105500Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China (Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology) 2021YFA1300303National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 32125024National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 32471517National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 62071271National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 62088102National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 62322110Natural Science Foundation of Beijing Municipality (Beijing Natural Science Foundation) JQ21012
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Super-resolution (SR) neural networks transform low-resolution optical microscopy images into SR images. Application of single-image SR (SISR) methods to long-term imaging has not exploited the temporal dependencies between neighboring frames and has been subject to inference uncertainty that is difficult to quantify. Here, by building a large-scale fluorescence microscopy dataset and evaluating the propagation and alignment components of neural network models, we devise a deformable phase-space alignment (DPA) time-lapse image SR (TISR) neural network. DPA-TISR adaptively enhances the cross-frame alignment in the phase domain and outperforms existing state-of-the-art SISR and TISR models. We also develop Bayesian DPA-TISR and design an expected calibration error minimization framework that reliably infers inference confidence. We demonstrate multicolor live-cell SR imaging for more than 10,000 time points of various biological specimens with high fidelity, temporal consistency and accurate confidence quantification.

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Image Processing, Computer-AssistedNeural Networks, ComputerAlgorithmsBayes TheoremHumansMicroscopy, FluorescenceTime-Lapse Imaging

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PMID39881027
PMCPMC12807867

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