Abstract

Single pixel imaging frameworks facilitate the acquisition of high-dimensional optical data in biological applications with photon starved conditions. However, they are still limited to slow acquisition times and low pixel resolution. Herein, we propose a convolutional neural network for fluorescence lifetime imaging with compressed sensing at high compression (NetFLICS-CR), which enables in vivo applications at enhanced resolution, acquisition and processing speeds, without the need for experimental training datasets. NetFLICS-CR produces intensity and lifetime reconstructions at 128 × 128 pixel resolution over 16 spectral channels while using only up to 1% of the required measurements, therefore reducing acquisition times from ∼2.5 hours at 50% compression to ∼3 minutes at 99% compression. Its potential is demonstrated in silico, in vitro and for mice in vivo through the monitoring of receptor-ligand interactions in liver and bladder and further imaging of intracellular delivery of the clinical drug Trastuzumab to HER2-positive breast tumor xenografts. The data acquisition time and resolution improvement through NetFLICS-CR, facilitate the translation of single pixel macroscopic flurorescence lifetime imaging (SP-MFLI) for in vivo monitoring of lifetime properties and drug uptake.

Highlights

  • Acquiring dense high-dimensional optical data in biological applications remains a challenge due to the very low levels of light typically encountered

  • This architecture is still dependent on inputting a large set of spatially coded measurements to form the images. To overcome this obstacle and accelerate bed-side translation of single-pixel imaging, we propose NetFLICS-compression ratios (CRs), a novel deep learning framework that reduces the acquisition times for Hyperspectral Macroscopic Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging (HMFLI) by more than one order of magnitude

  • Single pixel imaging retrieves fluorescence time domain (TD) information of the sample plane x through inverse solving m(t) = Px(t) (Eq 1) where P represents the sensitivity matrix of patterns used for the acquisition of m(t), composed of an 1D measurement per pattern P over time t, so that the number of 1D measurements needed for reconstruction equals the number of pixels at the desired resolution

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Summary

Introduction

Acquiring dense high-dimensional optical data in biological applications remains a challenge due to the very low levels of light typically encountered. With NetFLICS19, a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), single pixel raw fluorescence data can be reconstructed into intensity and lifetime images in a single workflow and without the need of parameter optimization.

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