Extended depth of field using shapelet-based image analysis

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 169-178

  Meneses, Jaime ^a   Suarez, Miguel A ^b   Braga, José ^c   Gharbi, Tijani ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD INDUSTRIAL DE SANTANDER   (Colombia)

^b FEMTO ST INSTITUTE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PIXELS;

COMPOSITE IMAGE; SHAPELET DECOMPOSITION;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 40749122588     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.000169     Document Type: Article

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