Spatiotemporal anisotropic diffusion filtering to improve signal-to-noise ratios and object restoration in fluorescence microscopic image sequences

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 40-47

  Uttenweiler, Dietmar ^a   Weber, Cornelia ^a   Jähne, Bernd ^a   Fink, Rainer H A ^a   Scharr, Hanno ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fluorescence imaging; Image sequence processing; Motility assay; Motion analysis; Noise

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; CELLS; ENZYME IMMOBILIZATION; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPIC IMAGE SEQUENCES; MOTILITY ASSAY; MOTION ANALYSIS; OBJECT RESTORATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION FILTERING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ACTIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE POLARIZATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IN VITRO STUDY; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; RABBIT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; FLUORESCENCE POLARIZATION; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOTION; RABBITS;

EID: 0037208322     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1527627     Document Type: Article

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