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Guozheng Xu¹, Thomas J Smart², Eduard Durech³

¹Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom.

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|September 30, 2024

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Sensorless adaptive optics (SAO) using a novel multi-observation single-step deep deterministic policy gradient (MOSS-DDPG) framework rapidly corrects aberrations in preclinical retinal imaging. This method achieves diffraction-limited resolution with significantly fewer iterations than traditional approaches.

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Area of Science:

Biomedical optics
Computational imaging
Ophthalmology

Background:

Sensorless adaptive optics (SAO) is crucial for improving image quality in various imaging modalities.
Deep deterministic policy gradient (DDPG) has shown promise for faster SAO compared to Zernike mode hill climbing (ZMHC).
Preclinical retinal imaging requires precise aberration correction for high-resolution visualization.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce a multi-observation single-step DDPG (MOSS-DDPG) optimization framework for SAO.
To apply MOSS-DDPG to a confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscope (SLO) for preclinical retinal imaging.
To evaluate the performance of MOSS-DDPG in terms of speed and accuracy.

Main Methods:

Developed a MOSS-DDPG framework optimizing N Zernike coefficients using 2N+1 image sharpness metric observations.
Implemented MOSS-DDPG with a long short-term memory (LSTM) network.
Conducted in silico simulations and in situ tests on a confocal SLO system.

Main Results:

MOSS-DDPG achieved diffraction-limited resolution in simulations.
Transfer learning enabled rapid adaptation of simulation-learned knowledge to real-world system imperfections.
In situ tests showed comparable performance to ZMHC with over a tenfold reduction in iterations.

Conclusions:

MOSS-DDPG offers a highly efficient approach for SAO in preclinical retinal imaging.
The framework demonstrates rapid convergence and robust performance in real-world conditions.
MOSS-DDPG represents a significant advancement for high-resolution retinal imaging applications.