Application of image restoration methods for confocal fluorescence microscopy

Geert M. P. van Kempen; Lucas J. van Vliet; Peter J. Verveer

doi:10.1117/12.271257

10 April 1997 Application of image restoration methods for confocal fluorescence microscopy

Geert M. P. van Kempen, Lucas J. van Vliet, Peter J. Verveer

Proceedings Volume 2984, Three-Dimensional Microscopy: Image Acquisition and Processing IV; (1997) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.271257
Event: BiOS '97, Part of Photonics West, 1997, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

The analysis of the three-dimensional structure of tissue, cells and cellular constituents play a major role in biomedical research. Three-dimensional images, acquired by confocal fluorescence microscopes play a key role in this analysis. However, the imaging properties of these microscopes give rise to diffraction-induced blurring phenomena. These distortions hamper subsequent quantitative analysis. Therefore, restoration algorithms that invert these distortions will improve these analyses. We have tested the performances of the Richardson-Lucy, and the ICTM algorithm in a simulation experiment and found a strong dependency of their performances on the signal-to-noise ratio of the image. We propose a pre-filtering to reduce the noise in the image without hampering the object. We have applied a Gaussian filter and a median filter prior to the restoration, and compensate for this extra blurring of the Gaussian in the restoration procedure. We show how this pre- filtering improves the performance of the restoration algorithms. The experiments were performed on spheres convolved with a confocal point spread function and distorted with Poisson noise.

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Geert M. P. van Kempen, Lucas J. van Vliet, and Peter J. Verveer "Application of image restoration methods for confocal fluorescence microscopy", Proc. SPIE 2984, Three-Dimensional Microscopy: Image Acquisition and Processing IV, (10 April 1997); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.271257

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