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    • Surface Metrology

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    • Optically-sectioned structured illumination microscopy (OS-SIM) is valuable for biological imaging and surface measurement due to its simplicity and optical sectioning capabilities.
    • Current OS-SIM methods for surface measurement are inefficient, requiring multiple images per scanning height.
    • This inefficiency limits the application of OS-SIM in high-throughput surface metrology.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop a more efficient optically-sectioned method for OS-SIM surface measurements.
    • To introduce a deep-learning-based approach for rapid optical section reconstruction.
    • To enhance the speed of OS-SIM surface metrology while maintaining accuracy.

    Main Methods:

    • A deep-learning-based one-shot optically-sectioned method, Deep-OS-SIM, was developed.
    • A convolutional neural network (CNN) was trained to learn optical sectioning invariants from structured illumination images.
    • The CNN leverages the high entropy properties of structured illumination for efficient training, even on low-textured surfaces.

    Main Results:

    • Deep-OS-SIM successfully reconstructs high-quality optical sections from a single structured illumination frame.
    • The method demonstrates fast convergence and low training error during CNN development.
    • Experiments show comparable accuracy to traditional OS-SIM techniques but with a significant increase in imaging speed.

    Conclusions:

    • Deep-OS-SIM offers a substantial improvement in the efficiency of OS-SIM for surface measurement applications.
    • The one-shot deep learning approach enables faster, high-quality optical sectioning.
    • This advancement has the potential to broaden the use of OS-SIM in engineering surface metrology.