Guided filter based image enhancement for focal error compensation in low cost automated histopathology microscopic system
| Autor: | Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy, Sai Siva Gorthi, Navchetan Awasthi, Prateek Katare |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Computer science
media_common.quotation_subject General Physics and Astronomy 01 natural sciences General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology 010309 optics 0103 physical sciences Contrast (vision) Humans General Materials Science Segmentation Computer vision media_common business.industry 010401 analytical chemistry General Engineering Histogram matching General Chemistry Image Enhancement 0104 chemical sciences Filter (video) Adaptive histogram equalization Female Bilateral filter Artificial intelligence business Focus (optics) Algorithms Unsharp masking |
| Zdroj: | Journal of biophotonicsREFERENCES. 13(11) |
| ISSN: | 1864-0648 |
| Popis: | Low-cost automated histopathology microscopy systems usually suffer from optical imperfections, producing images that are slightly Out of Focus (OoF). In this work, a guided filter (GF) based image preprocessing is proposed for compensating focal errors and its efficacy is demonstrated on images of healthy and malaria infected red blood cells (h-RBCs and i-RBCs), and PAP smears. Since contrast enhancement has been widely used as an image preprocessing step for the analysis of histopathology images, a systematic comparison is made with six such prominently used methods, namely Contrast Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization (CLAHE), RIQMC-based optimal histogram matching (ROHIM), modified L0, Morphological Varying(MV)-Bitonic filter, unsharp mask filter and joint bilateral filter. The images enhanced using GF approach lead to better segmentation accuracy (upto 50% improvement over native images) and visual quality compared to other approaches, without any change in the color tones. Thus, the proposed GF approach is a viable solution for rectifying the OoF microscopy images without the loss of the valuable diagnostic information presented by the color tone. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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