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Digital holographic microscopy is an imaging modality that can digitally reconstruct the images of 3-D samples from a single hologram by digitally refocusing it through the entire 3-D sample volume. In comparison, scanning through a sample volume with a conventional light microscope requires using a mechanical stage to shift the sample and taking multiple images at various depths, which sets a constraint on the achievable imaging speed and throughput. Moreover, holographic imaging can be performed at a fraction of the size and cost of a conventional bright-field microscope, also covering a much larger field of view. This has enabled a myriad of hand-held devices powered by holography for bio-medical diagnostics and environmental sensing applications. Despite these advantages, the resulting images of a holographic microscope in general suffer from light interference related spatial artifacts, which can limit the achievable contrast in the reconstructed hologram.
Researchers at UCLA have developed a novel artificial neural network-based method to overcome these limitations of holographic 3-D imaging. This new method, termed Bright-field Holography, has the best of both worlds as it combines the image contrast advantage of bright-field microscopy and the snapshot volumetric imaging capability of holography. In Bright-field Holography, a deep neural network is trained using co-registered pairs of digitally refocused holograms and their corresponding bright-field microscope images to learn the statistical image transformation between two different microscopy modalities.
