Extended Depth of Field Imaging for Mosaic Hyperspectral Images

Hyperspectral imaging (HSI) is an emerging modality for digital pathology. The purpose of this study is to develop an extended depth of field (EDOF) method for mosaic hyperspectral images acquired with a snapshot camera. EDOF is a technique for ensuring that an image is in focus at all points. A stack of mosaicked hyperspectral images of hematoxylin and eosin (H&E)-stained histologic slides were acquired at different positions along the z-axis and used to output a hyperspectral histologic image that was in-focus at every point. Three different methods were compared to achieve a fully focused image. We compared conventional patch-based methods to our proposed growth-based and band-based methods. The Brenner function was used to quantitatively measure the focus quality of each image measured. The results show that both of our proposed methods performed better qualitatively and quantitatively than the patch-based method, with the band-based method performing the best, as it leveraged dividing pixels into their proper wavelengths in addition to spatially, giving the algorithm better contrast to measure. In terms of speed, the band-based method was the fastest, followed by the patch-based method, with the growth-based method being the slowest. Our proposed extended depth of field hyperspectral imaging methods can have immediate applications in digital pathology, especially whole slide imaging, and other microscopic imaging.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:12471

Enthalten in:

Proceedings of SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering - 12471(2023) vom: 15. Feb.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Rathgeb, Armand [VerfasserIn]
Ma, Ling [VerfasserIn]
Tran, Minh [VerfasserIn]
Fei, Baowei [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Digital pathology
Extended depth of field (EDOF)
Histology
Hyperspectral image
Journal Article
Mosaic
Snapshot

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Date Revised 21.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1117/12.2653923

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM369904206