Automated compensation of light attenuation in confocal microscopy by exact histogram specification

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 165-175

  Stanciu, Stefan G ^a   Stanciu, George A ^a   Coltuc, Dinu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^b VALAHIA UNIVERSITY OF TARGOVISTE   (Romania)

Author keywords

Confocal microscope; Contrast enhancement; Exact histogram equalization; Exact histogram specification

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; EQUALIZERS; GRAPHIC METHODS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; SPECIFICATIONS;

CONFOCAL LASER SCANNING MICROSCOPY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPES; CONFOCAL-LASER-SCANNING-MICROSCOPY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; EXACT HISTOGRAM EQUALIZATION; EXACT HISTOGRAM SPECIFICATIONS; HISTOGRAM EQUALIZATIONS; HISTOGRAM MODELS; IMAGES SERIES; LIGHT ATTENUATION;

CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY;

EID: 76749104212     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: 10970029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jemt.20767     Document Type: Article

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