PurposeThe utility of fluorescence microscopy imaging comes with the challenge of low resolution acquisitions, which severely limits information extraction and quantitative analysis. Image denoising is a technique that aims to remove noise from microscopy acquisitions by taking into account prior statistics of the corrupting noise. In this work, we propose an image denoising technique for fluorescence microscopy imaging.ApproachThe proposed technique is based on the principle of multifractal feature extraction from a noisy sample followed by a reconstruction technique from these features. It is observed that by following a proper hierarchical classification procedure, meaningful features can be extracted from a noisy image. A denoised image is then estimated from this sparse feature set through proper formulation of an optimization problem.ResultsExperiments are performed on both synthetic image databases as well as on real fluorescence microscopy data. Superior denoising results, in comparison to multiple comparing techniques, validate the potential of the proposed approach.ConclusionThe proposed method gives superior denoising results for low resolution fluorescence microscopy image acquisitions and can be used for post processing of data by biologists.
We introduce a new approach to wavefront phase reconstruction in Adaptive Optics using a non-linear approach derived from the Microcanonical Multiscale Formalism (MMF). MMF comes from established concepts in statistical physics, well-suited for the multiscale analysis of complex signals through the precise numerical estimate of geometrically localized singularity exponents. These exponents quantify the degree of predictability at each point of the signal domain, and provide information on the dynamics of the associated system. We show that multiresolution analysis on the singularity exponents of a high-resolution turbulent phase allows propagation along the scales of the phase gradients in low-resolution, to a higher resolution and offers an innovative approach to wavefront phase reconstruction in Adaptive Optics.
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