Citation: Haolin Zhan, Qiyuan Fang, Jiawei Liu, Xiaoqi Shi, Xinyu Chen, Yuqing Huang, Zhong Chen. Noise Reduction of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Using Lightweight Deep Neural Network[J]. Acta Physico-Chimica Sinica, ;2025, 41(2): 231004. doi: 10.3866/PKU.WHXB202310045 shu

Noise Reduction of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Using Lightweight Deep Neural Network

Haolin Zhan ^{1, 2,,} ,
Qiyuan Fang ¹ ,
Jiawei Liu ¹ ,
Xiaoqi Shi ² ,
Xinyu Chen ¹ ,
Yuqing Huang ² ,
Zhong Chen ²

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Department of Biomedical Engineering, Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Measuring Theory and Precision Instrument, School of Instrument Science and Opto-electronics Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China
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Department of Electronic Science, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Plasma and Magnetic Resonance, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, Fujian Province, China

Corresponding author: Haolin Zhan, hlzhan@hfut.edu.cn
Received Date: 30 October 2023
Revised Date: 18 December 2023
Accepted Date: 19 December 2023

Fund Project: the National Natural Science Foundation of China 22204038

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy serves as a robust non-invasive characterization technique for probing molecular structure and providing quantitative analysis, however, further NMR applications are generally confined by the low sensitivity performance, especially for heteronuclear experiments. Herein, we present a lightweight deep learning protocol for high-quality, reliable, and very fast noise reduction of NMR spectroscopy. Along with the lightweight network advantages and fast computational efficiency, this deep learning (DL) protocol effectively reduces noises and spurious signals, and recovers desired weak peaks almost entirely drown in severe noise, thus implementing considerable signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) improvement. Additionally, it enables the satisfactory spectral denoising in the frequency domain and allows one to distinguish real signals and noise artifacts using solely physics-driven synthetic NMR data learning. Besides, the trained lightweight network model is general for one-dimensional and multi-dimensional NMR spectroscopy, and can be exploited on diverse chemical samples. As a result, the deep learning method presented in this study holds potential applications in the fields of chemistry, biology, materials, life sciences, and among others.
- NMR spectroscopy,
- Artificial intelligence,
- Deep learning,
- Spectral denoising,
- Lightweight network
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