Highly sensitive size discrimination of submicron objects Using optical Fourier processing based on two-dimensional Gabor filters

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 12001-12012

  Pasternack, Robert M ^a   Qian, Zhen ^b   Zheng, Jing Yi ^a   Metaxas, Dimitris N ^c   Boustany, Nada N ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PIEDMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

(070.1170); (070.6110) Spatial Filtering; (120.5820) Scattering measurements; (180.0180) Microscopy; Analog optical signal processing

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; PROCESSING; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

(070.1170); ANALOG OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; DIGITAL MICRO-MIRROR DEVICE; OPTICAL PROCESSING; POLYSTYRENE SPHERES; SCATTERING MEASUREMENTS; SPATIAL FILTERINGS; UNDERSAMPLED IMAGES;

GABOR FILTERS;

POLYSTYRENE DERIVATIVE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; CHEMISTRY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; OPTICS; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; MICROSCOPY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PARTICLE SIZE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; POLYSTYRENES; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 67650553303     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.012001     Document Type: Article

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