Comparative evaluation of autofocus algorithms for a real-time system for automatic detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Cytometry Part A

Volumn 81 A, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 213-221

  Mateos Pérez, José María ^a   Redondo, Rafael ^b   Nava, Rodrigo ^c   Valdiviezo, Juan C ^d   Cristóbal, Gabriel ^b   Escalante Ramírez, Boris ^c   Ruiz Serrano, María Jesús ^e   Pascau, Javier ^e,f   Desco, Manuel ^e,f  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN BIOMÉDICA EN RED DE SALUD MENTAL CIBERSAM   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE ÓPTICA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^d INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ASTROFÍSICA   (Mexico)

^e HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Autofocus; Automatic diagnosis; Fluorescence microscopy; Top hat filtering; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SPUTUM; TUBERCULOSIS;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SPUTUM; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84857374531     PISSN: 15524922     EISSN: 15524930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cyto.a.22020     Document Type: Article

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