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VOLT: Volumetric Wide-Field Microscopy via 3D-Native Probabilistic Transport

Image and Video Processing 2026-04-22 v1 Medical Physics

Abstract

Three-dimensional (3D) wide-field fluorescence microscopy is a widely used modality for volumetric imaging, but suffers from characteristic out-of-focus blur. Existing reconstruction methods either struggle to operate on high-dimensional volumes or fail to provide credibility characterization of the reconstruction. In this work, we introduce Volumetric Transport (VOLT), a 3D-native probabilistic framework for wide-field fluorescence microscopy reconstruction. VOLT combines a transport-based formulation that maps degraded measurements to clean volumes via stochastic interpolants with a 3D-native anisotropic network that separates lateral and axial processing. This design operates directly in voxel space and achieves improved scalability to large volumes without relying on slice-wise approximations. We develop both stochastic (SDE) and deterministic (ODE) variants within the same framework. We validate VOLT on simulated wide-field microscopy datasets. Our results show that VOLT significantly improves reconstruction quality in both lateral and axial directions while providing voxel-wise credibility estimates.

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@article{arxiv.2604.18807,
  title  = {VOLT: Volumetric Wide-Field Microscopy via 3D-Native Probabilistic Transport},
  author = {Yetao He and Wenhan Guo and Deliang Wei and Evan Bel and Ji Yi and Yu Sun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.18807},
  year   = {2026}
}
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