Evaluation of three methods for retrospective correction of vignetting on medical microscopy images utilizing two open source software tools

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 244, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 320-324

  Babaloukas, Georgios ^a   Tentolouris, Nicholas ^a   Liatis, Stavros ^a   Sklavounou, Alexandra ^b   Perrea, Despoina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Fiji; Gimp; Uneven background illumination; Vignetting

Indexed keywords

HISTOLOGY; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SYSTEMS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

BACKGROUND ILLUMINATION; FIJI; GIMP; MEDICAL MICROSCOPY; MICROSCOPY IMAGES; PROSPECTIVES; RETROSPECTIVE CORRECTIONS; SOFTWARE-TOOLS; UNEVEN BACKGROUND ILLUMINATION; VIGNETTING;

TISSUE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIGITAL FILTERING; DIGITAL IMAGING; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RAT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; VIGNETTE;

EID: 81255185359     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: 13652818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2818.2011.03546.x     Document Type: Article

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