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ArticleIEEE/ACM transactions on computational biology and bioinformatics

FocusALL: Focal Stacking of Microscopic Images Using Modified Harris Corner Response Measure.

Madhu S Sigdel, Madhav Sigdel, Semih Dinç, Imren Dinç, Marc L Pusey, Ramazan S Aygün

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Article in IEEE/ACM transactions on computational biology and bioinformatics. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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  8. Super-Thresholding: Supervised Thresholding of Protein Crystal Images.IEEE/ACM transactions on computational biology and bioinformatics
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6 authors.

Madhu S Sigdel
Madhav Sigdel
Semih Dinç
Imren Dinç
Marc L Pusey
Ramazan S Aygün

Funding

Macromolecule Crystallization Screening Results AnalysisR42GM116283 · NIGMS · IXPRESSGENES, INC. · PI PUSEY, MARC LEE · 2016 to 2017
$958k
Fluorescence Intensity-based Scoring of Macromolecule Crystallization PlatesR42GM090453 · NIGMS · IXPRESSGENES, INC. · PI PUSEY, MARC LEE · 2013 to 2014
$744k
Fluorescence Intensity-Based Scoring of Macromolecule Crystallization PlatesR41GM090453 · NIGMS · IXPRESSGENES, INC. · PI PUSEY, MARC LEE · 2010 to 2010
$100k
NIGMS NIH HHS GM-090453NIGMS NIH HHS R41 GM090453NIGMS NIH HHS R42 GM090453NIGMS NIH HHS R42 GM116283
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Automated image analysis of microscopic images such as protein crystallization images and cellular images is one of the important research areas. If objects in a scene appear at different depths with respect to the camera's focal point, objects outside the depth of field usually appear blurred. Therefore, scientists capture a collection of images with different depths of field. Focal stacking is a technique of creating a single focused image from a stack of images collected with different depths of field. In this paper, we introduce a novel focal stacking technique, FocusALL, which is based on our modified Harris Corner Response Measure. We also propose enhanced FocusALL for application on images collected under high resolution and varying illumination. FocusALL resolves problems related to the assumption that focus regions have high contrast and high intensity. Especially, FocusALL generates sharper boundaries around protein crystal regions and good in focus images for high resolution images in reasonable time. FocusALL outperforms other methods on protein crystallization images and performs comparably well on other datasets such as retinal epithelial images and simulated datasets.

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AlgorithmsCluster AnalysisHumansImage Processing, Computer-AssistedMicroscopyModels, BiologicalProteinsRetinal Pigment EpitheliumProteins

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PMID27045831
PMCPMC4888603

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