Polychromatic image fusion algorithm and fusion metric for automatized microscopes

Optical Engineering

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2005, Pages

  Bueno, Mario A ^a,b   Álvarez Borrego, Josué ^b   Acho, Leonardo ^a   Chávez Sánchez, María Cristína ^c  

^a CITEDI IPN   (United States)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

^c CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN ALIMENTACIÓN Y DESARROLLO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Automatized microscope; Fourier transform; Fusion algorithms; Fusion metrics; Fusion quality measures; Multifocus image fusion; YCbCr color space

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FOCUSING; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGE PROCESSING;

AUTOMATIZED MICROSCOPE; COLOR SPACE; FUSION ALGORITHMS; FUSION METRICS; FUSION QUALITY; MULTIFOCUS IMAGE FUSION;

MICROSCOPES;

EID: 33745569034     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2048708     Document Type: Article

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