Enhancing microscope biological images with DIP techniques

Author

Araújo, Arnaldode A. ; De Faria, Bernardmo ; Rees, H.J. ; Silva, M.A.R.

Author_Institution

Dept. de Ciencia da Comput., UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

349

Abstract

This paper reports and illustrates the application of enhancement techniques to images of the nervous system from a laser-scanning confocal microscope. These images are processed using DIP (digital image processing) techniques in order to enhance regions of interest, e.g. the cell nucleus and nervous terminations. Hidden information due to non-ideal acquisition must be exposed after processing, and errors such as non-uniform brightness, noise and artifacts must be eliminated

Keywords

biological techniques; brightness; image enhancement; medical image processing; neurophysiology; optical microscopy; biological image enhancement; cell nucleus; digital image processing techniques; error elimination; hidden information; image artifacts; image noise; laser-scanning confocal microscope; microscope images; nervous system; nervous terminations; nonideal image acquisition; nonuniform brightness; regions of interest; Biology computing; Brightness; Digital images; Electronics packaging; Filters; Laser noise; Microscopy; Nervous system; Noise figure; Three dimensional displays;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Graphics and Image Processing, 2000. Proceedings XIII Brazilian Symposium on

Conference_Location

Gramado

ISSN

1530-1834

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0878-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SIBGRA.2000.895837

Filename

895837