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Three-dimensional Coherent X-ray Diffraction Imaging via Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

Image and Video Processing 2021-10-29 v3 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Materials Science Applied Physics

Abstract

As a critical component of coherent X-ray diffraction imaging (CDI), phase retrieval has been extensively applied in X-ray structural science to recover the 3D morphological information inside measured particles. Despite meeting all the oversampling requirements of Sayre and Shannon, current phase retrieval approaches still have trouble achieving a unique inversion of experimental data in the presence of noise. Here, we propose to overcome this limitation by incorporating a 3D Machine Learning (ML) model combining (optional) supervised learning with transfer learning. The trained ML model can rapidly provide an immediate result with high accuracy which could benefit real-time experiments, and the predicted result can be further refined with transfer learning. More significantly, the proposed ML model can be used without any prior training to learn the missing phases of an image based on minimization of an appropriate 'loss function' alone. We demonstrate significantly improved performance with experimental Bragg CDI data over traditional iterative phase retrieval algorithms.

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@article{arxiv.2103.00001,
  title  = {Three-dimensional Coherent X-ray Diffraction Imaging via Deep Convolutional Neural Networks},
  author = {Longlong Wu and Shinjae Yoo and Ana F. Suzana and Tadesse A. Assefa and Jiecheng Diao and Ross J. Harder and Wonsuk Cha and Ian K. Robinson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.00001},
  year   = {2021}
}
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