L's approach: illumination pattern estimation technique for optical microscopy

Abstract

We propose a novel solution to the correction of illumination nonuniformity without removing the imaging sample. Calibration of the spatial illumination pattern in reflectance microscopy is challenging due to the fact that the illumination source is colocated with the objective lens and therefore cannot be observed directly. Our proposed methodology overcomes this by collecting three spatially translated images in a strategic way. We prove that ‘log‐illumination pattern’ recovery can be reformulated as a deconvolution of log‐ratio of captured images, and develop an efficient, noise‐robust implementation. Experiments with simulated and reflectance microscopy data verify the effectiveness of our proposed approach.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Oct 30, 2020
Source ID
10.1111/jmi.12968

Entities

People

  • Charles Brookshire
  • Keigo Hirakawa
  • Michael Uchic
  • Tyler Lesthaeghe
  • Victoria Kramb

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory
  • Purdue University
  • University of Dayton

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computer Vision.
  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.
  • Systems Analysis and Design