Wavelet-based focus measure and 3-D autofocusing for microscope images

Guangxue Jingmi Gongcheng/Optics and Precision Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1063-1069

  Wang, Yi Wen ^a   Liu, Xian Li ^a   Xie, Hui ^b  

^a HARBIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Autofocusing; Focus measure; Three dimensional autofocusing; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY; FOCUSING; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); MICROSCOPES; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); THREE DIMENSIONAL; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

FOCUS MEASURE; MICROSCOPE IMAGE; NUMERICAL APERTURE; THREE DIMENSIONAL AUTOFOCUSING;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 34247208062     PISSN: 1004924X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. VIKRAMADITYA B. Micromanipulation using self-assembly strategies[D]. Ph.D. Dissertaion, University of Minnesota, 2001: 47-65.
2. BRENNER J F, DDW B S, HORTON J B, et al. An automated microscope for cytologic research[J]. Journal of Histochemial and Cytochemical, 1971, 24: 100-111.
3. VOLLATH D. Automatic focusing by correlative methods[J]. Microscopy, 1987, 147: 279-288.
4. FIRESTONE L, COOK K, CULP K, et al. Comparison of autofocus methods for automated microscopy[J]. Cytometry, 1991, 12: 195-206.
5. SUBBARAO M, CHOI T S, NIKZAD A. Focusing techniques[J]. Optical Engineering, 1993, 32(11): 2824-2836.
6. YEO T, JAYASOORIAH S O, SINNIAH R. Autofocusing for tissue microscopy[J]. Image and Vision Computing, 1993, 11(10): 629-639.
7. NAYAR S K, NAKAGAWA Y. Shape from focus[J]. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 1994, 16(8): 824-831.
8. SANTOS A, SOLORZANO C O, VAQUERO J J, et al. Evaluation of autofocus functions in molecular cytogenetic analysis[J]. Microscopy, 1997, 188(3): 264-272.
9. DUAN R L, DUAN H B, LI Q X, et al. Micro assembly autofocusing system based on image processing[J]. Optical and Precision Engineering, 2006, 14(3): 468-472. (in Chinese)
10. ZHAO H, BAO G T, TAO W. Experimental research and analysis of automatic focusing function for imaging measurement[J]. Optical and Precision Engineering, 2004, 12(5): 531-536. (in Chinese)
11. SUBBARAO M, TYAN J K. Selecting the optimal focus measure for autofocusing and depth from focus[J]. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 1998, 20(8): 864-870.
12. SUN Y, DUTHALER S, NELSON B J. Autofocusing in computer microscopy: selecting the optimal focus algorithm[J]. Microscopy Research Techniques, 2004, 65(3): 139-149.
13. JAWERTH B, AWELDENS W. An overview of wavelet based multiresolution analysis[J]. SIAM Review, 1994, 36(3): 377-412.
14. MALLAT S. A wavelet tour of signal processing[M]. 2nd edition, New York, Academic Press, 1999.
15. YANG G, NELSON B J. Wavelet-based autofoucsing and unsupervised segmentation of microscopic image[C]. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and System, Las Vegans, Nevada, 2003: 2143-2148.