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2D electrophoresis image brightness correction based on gradient interval histogram
Qiaofeng Ou1, Jiabing Xiao1, Lei Yu1
1Key Laboratory of Image Processing and Pattern Recognition of Jiangxi Province, Nanchang Hangkong University, Nanchang, 330063, China.
Background:
Two-dimensional electrophoresis (2DE) is one of the most widely applied techniques in comparative proteomics. The basic task of 2DE is to identify differential protein expression by quantitative analysis of 2DE images. To reduce the errors of spot quantification in 2DE images, a novel brightness correction method based on gradient interval histogram (GIH) is proposed in this paper.
Results:
First, GIH equalization is proposed to enhance the protein spot edges, especially the weak protein spots in the 2DE image. Second, to eliminate the overall brightness shift, GIH matching is applied to the 2DE images that need to be compared. Finally, the proposed method is verified by subjective quality evaluation and quantitative analysis of protein spots in real 2DE images.
Conclusions:
The experimental results show that the average error of the quantification of corresponding protein spots in the resulting image pairs is less than 3%, which is significantly superior to that of the existing methods.
