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Differential Interference Contrast (DIC) — Public Tier

(5 scenes)

Full-access development tier with all data visible.

Measurements (y), ideal forward operator (H), spec ranges, ground truth (x_true), and true mismatch spec.

Load HDF5 → compare reconstruction vs x_true → check consistency → iterate.

Reconstructed signals (x_hat) and corrected spec as HDF5.

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True spec visible — use these exact values for Scenario III oracle reconstruction.

Parameter	Spec Range	True Value	Unit
shear_amount	80.0 – 140.0	110.0	nm
bias_retardation	-0.15 – 0.15	0.0	nm
prism_orientation	-0.6 – 1.2	0.3	deg

Method: CPU_baseline — Mismatch parameter: nominal

13.27 dB

SSIM 0.3991

11.88 dB

SSIM 0.2385

19.75 dB

SSIM 0.4579

Per-scene breakdown (4 scenes)

Scene	PSNR I	SSIM I	PSNR II	SSIM II	PSNR III	SSIM III
scene_00	17.02	0.3838	14.94	0.2440	20.04	0.5013
scene_01	14.23	0.2969	12.92	0.2098	19.23	0.5480
scene_02	8.52	0.3871	8.01	0.2308	20.11	0.3417
scene_03	13.30	0.5284	11.66	0.2694	19.61	0.4408

#	Method	Score	PSNR	SSIM	Consistency	Trust	Source
1	DiffusionDIC + gradient	0.835	36.48	0.976	0.9	✓ Certified	Luo et al., Nat. Photonics 2023 (DIC)
2	PhysPhase-Net + gradient	0.814	35.1	0.968	0.88	✓ Certified	Barbastathis et al., Optica 2019
3	SwinDIC + gradient	0.798	33.5	0.957	0.9	✓ Certified	Liang et al., ICCV 2021 (DIC)
4	PhaseNet-DIC + gradient	0.788	32.35	0.946	0.93	✓ Certified	Sinha et al., Optica 2020
5	PnP-DIC + gradient	0.739	29.5	0.909	0.9	✓ Certified	Kamilov et al., Optica 2017 (DIC)
6	DIC-CNN + gradient	0.722	28.43	0.89	0.91	✓ Certified	Rivenson et al., Optica 2018
7	TV-DIC + gradient	0.685	26.21	0.838	0.94	✓ Certified	Bostan et al., IEEE TIP 2014
8	Phase-DLSIM + gradient	0.620	23.93	0.766	0.87	✓ Certified	Stephens & Allen, J. Biomed. Opt. 2003
9	DIC-Deconv + gradient	0.606	22.99	0.731	0.92	✓ Certified	Preza et al., JOSA A 1999

y H_ideal spec_ranges x_true true_spec

Format: HDF5

Scenes: 5

0.4 × PSNR_norm + 0.4 × SSIM + 0.2 × (1 − ‖y − Ĥx̂‖/‖y‖)

PSNR: 40% SSIM: 40% Consistency: 20%