Title
Implementation And Evaluation Of A Penalized Alternating Minimization Algorithm For Computational Dic Microscopy
Abstract
We present the implementation and evaluation of a penalized alternating minimization (AM) method(1) for the computation of a specimen's complex transmittance function (magnitude and phase) from images captured with Differential Interference Contrast (DIC) microscopy. The magnitude of the transmittance function is constrained to be less than 1. The penalty is on the roughness of the complex transmittance function. Without the penalty, we show via simulation that the difference between the true and estimated transmittance function takes values in the null space of the DIC point-spread function, thereby characterizing the ill-posed nature of this inverse problem. The penalty effectively attenuates larger spatial frequencies that are in this null space. The algorithm is implemented on yeast cell images after proper normalization of the measured data. Preliminary results are promising.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1117/12.839020
COMPUTATIONAL IMAGING VIII
Keywords
Field
DocType
alternating minimization algorithm, complex function estimation, regularization penalties, phase estimation, computational DIC (Nomarski) microscopy
Kernel (linear algebra),Normalization (statistics),Differential interference contrast microscopy,Optics,Minification,Transmittance,Inverse problem,Spatial frequency,Physics,Computation
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
7533
0277-786X
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
1
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chrysanthe Preza112.47
O'Sullivan JA242466.08