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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

Light-field deep learning enables high-throughput, scattering-mitigated calcium imaging.

Carmel L Howe, Kate L Y Zhao, Herman Verinaz-Jadan, Pingfan Song, Samuel J Barnes, Pier Luigi Dragotti, Amanda J Foust

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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7 authors.

Carmel L Howe *Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, Royal School of Mines, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-5827-8705
Kate L Y Zhao *Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.ORCID 0009-0002-2020-0790
Herman Verinaz-Jadan *Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-1391-3426
Pingfan SongDepartment of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.
Samuel J BarnesDepartment of Brain Sciences, Division of Neuroscience, United Kingdom Dementia Research Institute, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital Campus, London W12 0NN, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-4030-6453
Pier Luigi DragottiDepartment of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-6073-2807
Amanda J FoustDepartment of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, Royal School of Mines, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-4895-0502

Funding

Royal Academy of Engineering (RAENG) RF1415/14/26UKRI | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) BB/R009007/1UKRI | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) EP/L016737/1UKRI | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) EP/W024020/1Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust (WT) 311370/Z/24/Z
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Abstract

Light-field microscopy (LFM) enables high-throughput functional imaging by scanlessly encoding entire volumes in single snapshots. However, LFM's computational burden and vulnerability to scattering limit its application to biological imaging. We present a light-field strategy for volumetric, scattering-mitigated neural circuit activity monitoring. A physics-based deep neural network, 2PiLnet, is trained with two-photon volumes and one-photon light fields. Light-field videos of jGCaMP8f-expressing neurons are acquired in neocortical brain slices. 2PiLnet reconstructs volumes with two-photon-like contrast and source confinement from scattered, blurry one-photon light fields from fields-of-view for which no two-photon images are provided. This enables automated segmentation and extraction of calcium signals with high signal-to-noise ratios and reduces optical crosstalk compared to conventional volume reconstruction methods. Imaging 100 volumes per second, we observe putative spikes fired at up to 10 Hz and the spatial intermingling of putative ensembles throughout [Formula: see text]-micron volumes. Compared to iterative algorithms, 2PiLnet workflows reduce light-field video processing times by several-fold, advancing the goal of real-time, scattering-robust volumetric neural circuit imaging for closed-loop and adaptive experimental paradigms.

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CalciumDeep LearningAnimalsImage Processing, Computer-AssistedMiceNeocortexNeuronsSignal-To-Noise RatioCalciumcalcium imagingdeep learninglight-field microscopyneural circuitstwo-photon imaging

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PMID41289378
PMCPMC12685042

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