Automatic seamless mosaicing of microscopic images: Enhancing appearance with colour degradation compensation and wavelet-based blending

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 231, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 408-418

  Hsu, W Y ^a   Poon, W F Paul ^a   Sun, Y N ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Image mosaicing; Microscopy; Optical degradation compensation; Wavelet based image blending

Indexed keywords

COLOR; IMAGE ACQUISITION;

COLOR DEGRADATION; IMAGE BLENDING; IMAGE ENHANCING; IMAGE MOSAICING; MICROSCOPIC IMAGE; MOSAICING; OPTICAL DEGRADATION; OPTICAL DEGRADATION COMPENSATION; WAVELET-BASED IMAGE BLENDING; WAVELET-BASED IMAGES;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COLOR; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MICROSCOPY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 50649086832     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: 13652818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2818.2008.02052.x     Document Type: Article

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