Taxonomy of multi-focal nematode image stacks by a CNN based image fusion approach.

Journal: Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
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Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: In the biomedical field, digital multi-focal images are very important for documentation and communication of specimen data, because the morphological information for a transparent specimen can be captured in form of a stack of high-quality images. Given biomedical image stacks containing multi-focal images, how to efficiently extract effective features from all layers to classify the image stacks is still an open question.

Authors

  • Min Liu
    Department of Critical Care Medicine, The Affiliated Wuxi People's Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi People's Hospital, Wuxi Medical Center, Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi, China.
  • Xueping Wang
    College of Electrical and Information Engineering, Hunan University, Hunan 410082, China.
  • Hongzhong Zhang
    Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research, Columbia University, 1255 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10027, United States.