Elsevier

Real-Time Imaging

Volume 8, Issue 6, December 2002, Pages 475-490
Real-Time Imaging

Regular Article
Biological Image Restoration in Optical-Sectioning Microscopy Using Prototype Image Constraints

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Abstract

The deconvolution of images obtained by means of optical-sectioning widefield fluorescence microscopy, is a relevant problem in biological applications. Several methods have been proposed in the last few years, with different degrees of success, to improve the quality of the images, but the data complexity and the computational cost remain a limiting factor in this problem. We present in this paper an approach to perform the deconvolution of three-dimensional data obtained by fluorescence microscopy (widefield) based on the Projection onto Convex Sets theory. Initially, a brief review of the Projection onto Convex Sets theory is presented.  In the restoration algorithm, we combine some constraint sets to restore the out-of-focus blur, to reduce the Poisson noise due to the acquisition process, to retrieve the missing frequencies due to the transfer function of the optical system, and to prevent the regularization errors. Some examples using a phantom and real cell images are presented. The method demonstrates good performance in terms of both visual results and cost–benefit analysis.

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