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Quantifying Microglia Morphology from Photomicrographs of Immunohistochemistry Prepared Tissue Using ImageJ
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Quantifying Microglia Morphology from Photomicrographs of Immunohistochemistry Prepared Tissue Using ImageJ

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Combined edge crispiness and statistical differencing for deblocking JPEG compressed images.

A S Al-Fohoum1, A M Reza

  • 1Dept. of Electr. Eng. and Comput. Sci., Wisconsin Univ., Milwaukee, WI 53201-0784, USA. afahoum@uwm.edu

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing : a Publication of the IEEE Signal Processing Society
|February 8, 2008
PubMed
Summary

This study introduces a novel method to reduce blocking effects in JPEG compressed images by filtering high-frequency components and using an adaptive filter. The approach effectively minimizes quantization noise, enhances image details, and reduces blurring.

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Quantifying Microglia Morphology from Photomicrographs of Immunohistochemistry Prepared Tissue Using ImageJ

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Area of Science:

  • Digital Image Processing
  • Signal Processing

Background:

  • JPEG compression introduces blocking artifacts and quantization noise, degrading image quality.
  • High-frequency details are particularly susceptible to noise, impacting image enhancement.
  • Effective image enhancement requires preserving details while minimizing noise and blocking effects.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a new approach for reducing blocking effects in JPEG compressed images.
  • To preserve high-frequency image details while mitigating quantization noise.
  • To enhance the performance of image enhancement methods by addressing blocking artifacts.

Main Methods:

  • Extraction of high-frequency components using high-pass filtering.
  • Scaling of extracted components based on compression ratio and subtraction from the original image.
  • Design and application of an adaptive filter based on the preprocessed image's statistical properties.

Main Results:

  • Achieved high Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR).
  • Demonstrated significant improvement in separating blocking noise from image features.
  • Effectively reduced image blurring while preserving global and local edges.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed method successfully reduces blocking artifacts and enhances image feature regularities.
  • The approach offers improved smoothness without introducing blurring.
  • Subjective and qualitative evaluations confirm the effectiveness compared to existing techniques.