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Title: Three-dimensional coherent X-ray diffraction imaging via deep convolutional neural networks

Abstract

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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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF)
OSTI Identifier:
1828093
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1823628
Report Number(s):
BNL-222182-2021-JAAM
Journal ID: ISSN 2057-3960; 175; PII: 644
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0012704; No. DE-SC0012704; AC02-06CH11357; DMR-9724294
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
npj Computational Materials
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: npj Computational Materials Journal Volume: 7 Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2057-3960
Publisher:
Nature Publishing Group
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Subject:
75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; Applied physics; Characterization and analytical techniques; Computational methods; Imaging techniques

Citation Formats

Wu, Longlong, Yoo, Shinjae, Suzana, Ana F., Assefa, Tadesse A., Diao, Jiecheng, Harder, Ross J., Cha, Wonsuk, and Robinson, Ian K. Three-dimensional coherent X-ray diffraction imaging via deep convolutional neural networks. United Kingdom: N. p., 2021. Web. doi:10.1038/s41524-021-00644-z.
Wu, Longlong, Yoo, Shinjae, Suzana, Ana F., Assefa, Tadesse A., Diao, Jiecheng, Harder, Ross J., Cha, Wonsuk, & Robinson, Ian K. Three-dimensional coherent X-ray diffraction imaging via deep convolutional neural networks. United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41524-021-00644-z
Wu, Longlong, Yoo, Shinjae, Suzana, Ana F., Assefa, Tadesse A., Diao, Jiecheng, Harder, Ross J., Cha, Wonsuk, and Robinson, Ian K. Thu . "Three-dimensional coherent X-ray diffraction imaging via deep convolutional neural networks". United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41524-021-00644-z.
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title = {Three-dimensional coherent X-ray diffraction imaging via deep convolutional neural networks},
author = {Wu, Longlong and Yoo, Shinjae and Suzana, Ana F. and Assefa, Tadesse A. and Diao, Jiecheng and Harder, Ross J. and Cha, Wonsuk and Robinson, Ian K.},
abstractNote = {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.},
doi = {10.1038/s41524-021-00644-z},
journal = {npj Computational Materials},
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volume = 7,
place = {United Kingdom},
year = {2021},
month = {10}
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