Automatic noise quantification for confocal fluorescence microscopy images

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 426-434

  Paul, Perrine ^a   Duessmann, Heiko ^b   Bernas, Tytus ^b   Huber, Heinrich ^b   Kalamatianos, Dimitrios ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Fluorescence microscopy; Image processing; Live cell imaging; Noise estimation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION TIME; CONFOCAL FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY IMAGES; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY IMAGING; GLOBAL NOISE; INDEPENDENT NOISE; LIVE-CELL IMAGING; MEDIAN FILTERING; NO REFERENCES; NOISE ESTIMATION; NOISE QUANTIFICATION; ON-LINE QUANTIFICATION; PHOTO-TOXICITY; SIGNAL DEPENDENT NOISE; SIMPLE METHOD; SPATIO-TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; SUB-BLOCKS;

ESTIMATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

FLUORESCENCE;

ARTICLE; CONFOCAL FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; VALIDITY;

ALGORITHMS; CELLS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 77954386275     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2010.04.001     Document Type: Article

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