Henry Pinkard and Zachary Phillips and Arman Babakhani and Daniel Fletcher and Laura Waller

EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley

Technical Report No. UCB/EECS-2019-138

October 16, 2019

http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2019/EECS-2019-138.pdf

Maintaining an in-focus image over long time scales is an essential and non-trivial task for a variety of microscopy applications. Here, we describe a fast and robust auto-focusing method that is compatible with a wide range of existing microscopes. It requires only the addition of one or a few off-axis illumination sources (e.g. LEDs), and can predict the focus correction from a single image with this illumination. We designed a neural network architecture, the fully connected Fourier neural network (FCFNN), that exploits an understanding of the physics of the illumination in order to make accurate predictions with 2-3 orders of magnitude fewer learned parameters and less memory usage than existing state-of-the-art architectures, allowing it to be trained without any specialized hardware. We provide an open-source implementation of our method, in order to enable fast and inexpensive autofocus compatible with a variety of microscopes.

Advisors: Laura Waller

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BibTeX citation:

@mastersthesis{Pinkard:EECS-2019-138,
    Author= {Pinkard, Henry and Phillips, Zachary and Babakhani, Arman and Fletcher, Daniel and Waller, Laura},
    Title= {Deep learing for single-shot autofocus microscopy},
    School= {EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley},
    Year= {2019},
    Month= {Oct},
    Url= {http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2019/EECS-2019-138.html},
    Number= {UCB/EECS-2019-138},
    Abstract= {Maintaining an in-focus image over long time scales is an essential and non-trivial task for a variety of microscopy applications. Here, we describe a fast and robust auto-focusing method that is compatible with a wide range of existing microscopes. It requires only the addition of one or a few off-axis illumination sources (e.g. LEDs), and can predict the focus correction from a single image with this illumination. We designed a neural network architecture, the fully connected Fourier neural network (FCFNN), that exploits an understanding of the physics of the illumination in order to make accurate predictions with 2-3 orders of magnitude fewer learned parameters and less memory usage than existing state-of-the-art architectures, allowing it to be trained without any specialized hardware. We provide an open-source implementation of our method, in order to enable fast and inexpensive autofocus compatible with a variety of microscopes.},
}

EndNote citation:

%0 Thesis
%A Pinkard, Henry 
%A Phillips, Zachary 
%A Babakhani, Arman 
%A Fletcher, Daniel 
%A Waller, Laura 
%T Deep learing for single-shot autofocus microscopy
%I EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley
%D 2019
%8 October 16
%@ UCB/EECS-2019-138
%U http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2019/EECS-2019-138.html
%F Pinkard:EECS-2019-138