Deep‐Learning‐Driven High‐Fidelity In Vivo Hyperspectral Fluorescence Imaging Under Extreme Photon‐Limited Conditions
In vivo hyperspectral fluorescence imaging (fHSI) has transformed biomedical research by enabling qualitative/quantitative analysis of multiplexed molecular interactions. However, constraints for in vivo imaging and division of photons across numerous spectral channels create extreme photon-limited conditions, where deep signal-to-noise coupling compromises fidelity and prevents accurate analysis. Here, we present a co-designed confocal line-scanning hyperspectral light-sheet microscopy and dual-stream residual attention network with non-negative matrix factorization (DsRAN-NMF), achieving high-fidelity in vivo fHSI with up to three orders-of-magnitude improvement in photon efficiency. Advanced illumination and optical sectioning provide higher-quality initial signals, restored by our DsRAN-NMF with improved spatial and spectral fidelity, which simultaneously comprehends noise physics, high-dimensional data geometry, and hyperspectral unmixing objectives to recover biologically interpretable spectral contributions. This approach resolves highly spectrally overlapping fluorophores at micron-scale resolution in whole live zebrafish and enables visualization of nanoplastic uptake and circulation, establishing a pathway toward 4D hyperspectral imaging of living systems and nanoplastic toxicology.
Authors
- Guiye Li
- Ben Y
- M Q Zhang
- Songnian Fu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3330-9170)
- Tawfique Hasan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6250-7582)
- Le Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0382-5863)
- Shutao Wu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-4775-4890)
- Renjian Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0810-5491)
- James McGinty
- Kaixiang Li
- Sunil Kumar
- Zhenyu An
Institutions
- University of Cambridge (GB)
- Beijing Normal University (CN)
- Bridge University (SS)
- Guangzhou Institute of Advanced Technology (CN)
- Applied Photonics (United Kingdom) (GB)
- Shenzhen Technology University (CN)
- Imperial College London (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Advanced Science
- Published
- 2026-07-27
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.76802
- Primary Topic
- Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China