{"id":215320,"date":"2025-06-04T02:02:56","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T07:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/ai-algorithms-approach-the-theoretical-limit-of-optical-measurement-precision"},"modified":"2025-06-04T02:02:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T07:02:56","slug":"ai-algorithms-approach-the-theoretical-limit-of-optical-measurement-precision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/ai-algorithms-approach-the-theoretical-limit-of-optical-measurement-precision","title":{"rendered":"AI algorithms approach the theoretical limit of optical measurement precision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-algorithms-approach-the-theoretical-limit-of-optical-measurement-precision2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No image is infinitely sharp. For 150 years, it has been known that no matter how ingeniously you build a microscope or a camera, there are always fundamental resolution limits that cannot be exceeded in principle. The position of a particle can never be measured with infinite precision; a certain amount of blurring is unavoidable. This limit does not result from technical weaknesses, but from the physical properties of light and the transmission of information itself.<\/p>\n<p>TU Wien (Vienna), the University of Glasgow and the University of Grenoble therefore posed the question: Where is the absolute limit of precision that is possible with optical methods? And how can this limit be approached as closely as possible?<\/p>\n<p>And indeed, the international team succeeded in specifying a lowest limit for the theoretically achievable precision and in developing AI algorithms for <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/neural+networks\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">neural networks<\/a> that come very close to this limit after appropriate training. This strategy is now set to be employed in imaging procedures, such as those used in medicine. The study is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41566-025-01657-6\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Nature Photonics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No image is infinitely sharp. For 150 years, it has been known that no matter how ingeniously you build a microscope or a camera, there are always fundamental resolution limits that cannot be exceeded in principle. The position of a particle can never be measured with infinite precision; a certain amount of blurring is unavoidable. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}