Yasmin M. Kassim

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Multi-focus Image Fusion for Confocal Microscopy Using U-Net Regression Map

Md Maruf Hossain Shuvo, Yasmin M. Kassim, Filiz Bunyak, Olga V. Glinskii, Leike Xie, Vladislav V Glinsky, Virginia H. Huxley, Kannappan Palaniappan

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Auto-TLDR; Independent Single Channel U-Net Fusion for Multi-focus Microscopy Images

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Multi-focus image fusion plays an important role to better visualize the detailed information and anatomical structures of microscopy images. We propose a new approach to fuse all single-focus microscopy images in each Z-stack. As the structures are different in different channels, input images are separated into red and green channels. Red for blood vessels, and green for lymphatics like structures . Taking the maximum likelihood of U-Net regression likelihood map along Z, we obtain the focus selection map for each channel. We named this approach as Independent Single Channel U-Net (ISCU) fusion. We combined each channel fusion result to get the final dual channel composite RGB image. The dataset used is extremely challenging with complex microscopy images of mice dura mater attached to bone. We compared our results with one of the popular and widely used derivative based fusion method [7] using multiscale Hessian. We found that multiscale Hessian-based approach produces banding effects with nonhomogeneous background lacking detailed anatomical structures. So, we took the advantages of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), and used the U-Net regression likelihood map to fuse the images. Perception based no-reference image quality assessment parameters like PIQUE, NIQE, and BRISQUE confirms the effectiveness of the proposed method.