Plug-and-Play Volumetric Reconstruction for Compressive Sensing Light-Sheet Microscopy

arXiv:2607.01654 2026 Architecture 1 ideas extracted · analyzed Aug 30, 2026

What the math gives to ML

The paper exposes a useful computational structure in multiplexed inverse problems: each compressed exposure is a sum of several masked latent slices, so the forward operator has very low output dimension and a diagonal pixelwise Gram matrix. This makes the quadratic data-consistency step exactly solvable with a Woodbury identity rather than an iterative linear solver, and the resulting operation can be embedded as a differentiable layer in an unrolled neural reconstruction network. The strongest transferable asset is not the microscopy-specific model itself, but the general pattern of combining learned denoising with an exact, cheap proximal correction for grouped linear measurements.

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Woodbury Data-Consistency Layer for Multiplexed Unrolling

Replace the usual gradient-descent or conjugate-gradient data-fidelity step in an unrolled reconstruction network with an exact Woodbury proximal layer for grouped multiplexed measurements. The layer can be inserted between learned denoising blocks and should provide stronger measurement consistency at a fixed number of unrolled stages, while avoiding inner iterative linear solves.

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Paper: Plug-and-Play Volumetric Reconstruction for Compressive Sensing Light-Sheet Microscopy arXiv:2607.01654