title: Self-learning based Fourier ptychographic microscopy.
abstract: Fourier Ptychographic Microscopy (FPM) is a newly proposed computational imaging method aimed at reconstructing a high-resolution wide-field image from a sequence of low-resolution images. These low-resolution images are captured under varied illumination angles and the FPM recovery routine then stitches them together in the Fourier domain iteratively. Although FPM has achieved success with static sample reconstructions, the long acquisition time inhibits real-time application. To address this problem, we propose here a self-learning based FPM which accelerates the acquisition and reconstruction procedure. We first capture a single image under normally incident illumination, and then use it to simulate the corresponding low-resolution images under other illumination angles. The simulation is based on the relationship between the illumination angles and the shift of the sample's spectrum. We analyze the importance of the simulated low-resolution images in order to devise a selection scheme which only collects the ones with higher importance. The measurements are then captured with the selection scheme and employed to perform the FPM reconstruction. Since only measurements of high importance are captured, the time requirements of data collection as well as image reconstruction can be greatly reduced. We validate the effectiveness of the proposed method with simulation and experimental results showing that the reduction ratio of data size requirements can reach over 70%, without sacrificing image reconstruction quality.
authors.forename: Yongbing
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Weixin
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Lei
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Tian
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Waller
authors.forename: Qionghai
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Dai