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Image Scanning Microscopy (ISM) — pixel reassignment super-resolution L1-016

MicroscopyConfocal with small-pinhole detector arrayδ=3 · standardL_DAG = 3.3📋 Stub — not mineable
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Forward model E

Image Scanning Microscopy (ISM) — pixel reassignment super-resolution: airy scan detector array produces the measurement through a 4-node primitive DAG K.psf.confocal -> S.scan.raster -> L.pixel_reassign -> int.temporal, with time-integrated exposure and Poisson signal noise + Gaussian read noise. Recovery is posed as a linear inverse problem that inverts the forward operator to estimate the scene-side 2D intensity. Difficulty tier delta=3 with effective condition number kappa_eff~9; calibration-level mismatch (detector_registration, pinhole_size_AU, reassignment_kernel_drift) sets the accuracy floor at the Omega boundary. See the forward_model field for the closed-form imaging equation.

L-DAG

K.psf.confocal -> S.scan.raster -> L.pixel_reassign -> int.temporal
K.psf.confocalS.scan.rasterL.pixel_reassignint.temporal

Well-posedness W

Existence:
true
Uniqueness:
true
Stability:
conditional
κ:
180

Existence of the recovered 2D intensity is guaranteed within the declared Omega bounds. Uniqueness holds on the measurement-supported subspace; out-of-support modes are controlled by the declared priors. Stability is well-conditioned (kappa_eff ~= 9); detector_registration dominates the stability cliff; pinhole_size_AU and the remaining mismatch parameters contribute higher-order bias terms. Poisson signal noise + gaussian read noise sets the irreducible data-fidelity floor, while mild Tikhonov or analytic inversion is sufficient at the nominal Omega point.

Solvability C

Solver class:
analytic / closed-form + post-processing [Airyscan-Pixel-Reassign] | linear-operator + convex optimisation [ISM-Deconv] | linear-operator + deep neural prior [ISM-Net]
Convergence rate q:
2
Complexity:
O(H * W * log(...)) per iteration; learned variants: O(H W Z * F_theta_cost) per forward pass

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