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Previous endeavors to improve image quality can hardly get a good compromise between robustness and computational efficiency.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We present the image enhancement pipeline named Neuronal Image Enhancement through Noise Disentanglement (NIEND). Through extensive benchmarking on 863 mouse neuronal images with manually annotated gold standards, NIEND achieves remarkable improvements in image quality such as signal-background contrast (40-fold) and background uniformity (10-fold), compared to raw images. Furthermore, automatic reconstructions on NIEND-enhanced images have shown significant improvements compared to both raw images and images enhanced using other methods. Specifically, the average F1 score of NIEND-enhanced reconstructions is 0.88, surpassing the original 0.78 and the second-ranking method, which achieved 0.84. Up to 52% of reconstructions from NIEND-enhanced images outperform all other four methods in F1 scores. In addition, NIEND requires only 1.6\u2009s on average for processing 256\u2009\u00d7\u2009256\u2009\u00d7\u2009256-sized images, and images after NIEND attain a substantial average compression rate of 1% by LZMA. NIEND improves image quality and neuron reconstruction, providing potential for significant advancements in automated neuron morphology reconstruction of petascale.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Availability and implementation<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The study is conducted based on Vaa3D and Python 3.10. Vaa3D is available on GitHub (https:\/\/github.com\/Vaa3D). The proposed NIEND method is implemented in Python, and hosted on GitHub along with the testing code and data (https:\/\/github.com\/zzhmark\/NIEND). The raw neuronal images of mouse brains can be found at the BICCN\u2019s Brain Image Library (BIL) (https:\/\/www.brainimagelibrary.org). 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