Testing for image symmetries - With application to confocal microscopy

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1841-1855

  Bissantz, Nicolai ^a   Holzmann, Hajo ^b   Pawlak, Mirosław ^c  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Image symmetry; Nanoscale bioimaging; Nonparametric estimation; Point spread function (PSF); Symmetry detection; Zernike moments

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SYMMETRY; NANOSCALE BIOIMAGING; NONPARAMETRIC ESTIMATION; POINT-SPREAD FUNCTION (PSF); SYMMETRY DETECTION; ZERNIKE MOMENTS;

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROL THEORY; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; STATISTICS;

STATISTICAL TESTS;

EID: 64249133728     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2009.2012997     Document Type: Article

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