a, Lateral and axial planes from images of a fixed U2OS cell stained with Alexa Fluor 568 Phalloidin, comparing widefield raw data, RLD with 100 iterations, Thunder output, RLN result and the registered confocal data as a ground truth reference. RLN was trained with synthetic mixed structures. RLN predictions show better restoration than RLD and Thunder, particularly along the axial dimension. PSNR and SSIM analysis using the confocal data as ground truth confirm this result (raw widefield, SSIM 0.57 ± 0.03; PSNR 28.7 ± 0.9; RLD, SSIM 0.67 ± 0.03, PSNR 30.0 ± 0.7; Thunder, SSIM 0.63 ± 0.05, PSNR 30.0 ± 0.7; RLN, SSIM 0.73 ± 0.02, PSNR 30.9 ± 0.9, n = 4 volumes). b, Lateral and axial planes of images of nuclei pore complexes in a fixed COS-7 cell immunolabeled with primary mouse anti-Nup clone Mab414 and goat-antimouse IgG secondary antibody conjugated with Star635P, comparing widefield input, RLD with 100 iterations, Thunder output, RLN prediction and registered confocal data as a ground truth reference. c, Magnified views of the blue rectangle in b. d, Line profiles across the red and magenta lines in the lateral and axial views in b. RLN was trained with synthetic mixed structures. Both visual analysis (for example, red arrows) and line intensity profiles demonstrate that RLN restoration outperform Thunder (obvious artifacts indicated by orange arrows) and RLD in both lateral and axial views, showing detail that approaches the confocal reference. PSNR and SSIM analysis using the registered confocal results as ground truth confirm this result (raw widefield input SSIM 0.78 ± 0.04, PSNR 34.5 ± 0.4; RLD SSIM 0.79 ± 0.02, PSNR 36.7 ± 0.5; Thunder SSIM 0.80 ± 0.04, PSNR 36.7 ± 0.4; RLN SSIM 0.86 ± 0.01, PSNR 37.5 ± 0.3, n = 4 volumes). Scale bars, a 10 μm; b 10 μm; c 3 μm. Experiments repeated four times for both a and b, representative data from single experiment are shown.