用视觉Transformer实时从干涉图推断泪膜厚度,助力干眼病无创诊断。
Towards Real-Time Inference of Thin Liquid Film Thickness Profiles from Interference Patterns Using Vision Transformers
- 基于视觉Transformer直接从干涉图重建厚度,一次前向传播完成
- 在含运动伪影的动态泪膜上实现亚秒级重建,噪声鲁棒性强
- 适用于临床实时监测,可在消费级硬件运行,适合眼科应用
薄液膜干涉测量是一种非侵入式检测液体膜厚度的有力技术,广泛应用于眼科领域。然而,其临床转化受限于从干涉图中重建厚度分布这一病态逆问题——该问题受相位周期性、成像噪声和环境干扰影响。传统方法计算量大、对噪声敏感或依赖人工分析,难以实现实时诊断。为此,本文提出一种基于视觉变压器的方法,可直接从孤立干涉图中实时推断薄液膜厚度分布。模型在结合生理相关合成数据与实验泪膜数据的混合数据集上训练,利用长程空间相关性解决相位模糊问题,并从活体及离体动态干涉图中单次前向传播重建时间连贯的厚度分布。该网络在噪声大、快速变化且含运动伪影的薄膜上表现优异,超越传统相位解包裹与迭代拟合方法。本数据驱动方法可在消费级硬件上实现自动化、一致性的实时厚度重建,为镜片前泪膜连续监测及干眼症等疾病的无创诊断开辟新可能。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Thin film interferometry is a powerful technique for non-invasively measuring liquid film thickness with applications in ophthalmology, but its clinical translation is hindered by the challenges in reconstructing thickness profiles from interference patterns - an ill-posed inverse problem complicated by phase periodicity, imaging noise and ambient artifacts. Traditional reconstruction methods are either computationally intensive, sensitive to noise, or require manual expert analysis, which is impractical for real-time diagnostics. To address this challenge, here we present a vision transformer-based approach for real-time inference of thin liquid film thickness profiles directly from isolated interferograms. Trained on a hybrid dataset combining physiologically-relevant synthetic and experimental tear film data, our model leverages long-range spatial correlations to resolve phase ambiguities and reconstruct temporally coherent thickness profiles in a single forward pass from dynamic interferograms acquired in vivo and ex vivo. The network demonstrates state-of-the-art performance on noisy, rapidly-evolving films with motion artifacts, overcoming limitations of conventional phase-unwrapping and iterative fitting methods. Our data-driven approach enables automated, consistent thickness reconstruction at real-time speeds on consumer hardware, opening new possibilities for continuous monitoring of pre-lens ocular tear films and non-invasive diagnosis of conditions such as the dry eye disease.
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