The Optical Mouse as an Inexpensive Region-of-Interest Position Recorder in Optical Microscopy

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 203-205

  Ng, T W ^a   Cheong, T L ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b PWC Consulting (S) Pte Ltd   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAMMALS; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE;

MICROSCOPIC FEATURES; OPTICAL MICE; OPTICAL MICROSCOPES; POSITION ENCODERS; REGION-OF-INTEREST; REGIONS OF INTEREST; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MICROSCOPY; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 1542313907     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jemt.20031     Document Type: Article

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