Title
Autofocusing For Automated Microscopic Evaluation Of Blood Smear And Pap Smear
Abstract
Autofocusing is a fundamental procedure towards automated microscopic evaluation of blood smear and pap smear samples for clinical diagnosis. This paper presents comparison results of 16 focus algorithms based on a total of 8000 bright-field images from 10 blood smear and pap smear samples. A ranking methodology adapted from our previously proposed ranking system is used for thoroughly evaluating the performance of the selected 16 focus algorithms. Experimental results demonstrate that the Variance algorithm provides the best overall performance, which will be selected for our future implementation of' an automated microscopic system for computer-assisted blood smear and pap smear evaluation. Together with our previously reported findings, we hypothesize that the Variance algorithm or the Normalized Variance algorithm is the optimal focus algorithm for all nonfluorescence microscopy applications.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1109/IEMBS.2006.259263
2006 28TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY, VOLS 1-15
Keywords
DocType
Volume
fluorescence microscopy
Conference
1
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1557-170X
2
0.40
References 
Authors
2
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
X Y Liu120.40
Wenhui Wang29219.23
Yu Sun341869.89