Table 1 Parameters used for synthetic degradation of CLSM training data.

From: Enhanced confocal microscopy with physics-guided autoencoders via synthetic noise modeling

Degradation component

Parameter specification

Point spread function (PSF)

Airy disk model, NA = 1.4, λ = 500 nm

Photon shot noise

Poisson distribution, scale = 0.1

Dark current noise

Additive Gaussian noise, σ = 0.05

Speckle noise

Multiplicative Gaussian noise, σ = 0.05

Motion blur

Linear kernel, 5 pixels, random orientation

Laser power fluctuations

Multiplicative Gaussian scaling, σ = 0.05

Undersampling

20% random pixel deletion (binary mask)

Attenuation (post-PSF)

Exponential decay co-efficient = 1.20