Microscope
Image Processing
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Microscope
Image Processing
Qiang Wu
Fatima A. Merchant
Kenneth R. Castleman
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Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
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Introduction
Kenneth R. Castleman and Ian T. Young
1.1 The Microscope and Image Processing
1.2 Scope of This Book
1.3 Our Approach
1.3.1 The Four Types of Images
1.3.1.1 Optical Image
1.3.1.2 Continuous Image
1.3.1.3 Digital Image
1.3.1.4 Displayed Image
1.3.2 The Result
1.3.2.1 Analytic Functions
1.3.3 The Sampling Theorem
1.4 The Challenge
1.5 Nomenclature
1.6 Summary of Important Points
2 Fundamentals of Microscopy
Kenneth R. Castleman and Ian T. Young
2.1 Origins of the Microscope
2.2 Optical Imaging
2.2.1 Image Formation by a Lens
2.2.1.1 Imaging a Point Source
2.2.1.2 Focal Length
2.2.1.3 Numerical Aperture
2.2.1.4 Lens Shape
2.3 Diffraction-Limited Optical Systems
2.3.1 Linear System Analysis
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Incoherent Illumination
2.4.1 The Point Spread Function
2.4.2 The Optical Transfer Function
2.5 Coherent Illumination
2.5.1 The Coherent Point Spread Function
2.5.2 The Coherent Optical Transfer Function
2.6 Resolution
2.6.1 Abbe Distance
2.6.2 Rayleigh Distance
2.6.3 Size Calculations
2.7 Aberration
2.8 Calibration
2.8.1 Spatial Calibration
2.8.2 Photometric Calibration
2.9 Summary of Important Points
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Image Digitization
Kenneth R. Castleman
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3.2 Resolution
3.3 Sampling
Introduction
3.3.1 Interpolation
3.3.2 Aliasing
3.4 Noise
3.5 Shading
3.6 Photometry
3.7 Geometric Distortion
3.8 Complete System Design
3.8.1 Cumulative Resolution
3.8.2 Design Rules of Thumb
3.8.2.1 Pixel Spacing
3.8.2.2 Resolution
3.8.2.3 Noise
3.8.2.4 Photometry
3.8.2.5 Distortion
3.9 Summary of Important Points
Image Display
Kenneth R. Castleman
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4.2 Display Characteristics
Introduction
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4.2.2 Aspect Ratio
4.2.3 Photometric Resolution
4.2.4 Grayscale Linearity
4.2.5 Low-Frequency Response
4.2.5.1 Pixel Polarity
4.2.5.2 Pixel Interaction
4.2.6 High-Frequency Response
4.2.7 The Spot-Spacing Compromise
4.2.8 Noise Considerations
4.3 Volatile Displays
4.4 Sampling for Display Purposes
4.4.1 Oversampling
4.4.2 Resampling
4.5 Display Calibration
4.6 Summary of Important Points
5 Geometric Transformations
Kenneth R. Castleman
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5.3 Gray-Level Interpolation
Introduction
Implementation
5.3.1 Nearest-Neighbor Interpolation
5.3.2 Bilinear Interpolation
5.3.3 Bicubic Interpolation
5.3.4 Higher-Order Interpolation
5.4 Spatial Transformation
5.4.1 Control-Grid Mapping
5.5 Applications
5.5.1 Distortion Removal
5.5.2 Image Registration
5.5.3 Stitching
5.6 Summary of Important Points
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Image Enhancement
Yu-Ping Wang, Qiang Wu, and Kenneth R. Castleman
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6.2 Spatial Domain Methods
Introduction
6.2.1 Contrast Stretching
6.2.2 Clipping and Thresholding
6.2.3 Image Subtraction and Averaging
6.2.4 Histogram Equalization
6.2.5 Histogram Specification
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