Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 62, Issue 6, 0611004(2025)

Interline Dislocation Correction for Laser-Scanning Confocal High-Speed Microscopic Imaging

Haibin Wan1,2、*, Wei Huang2, Lin Ji2, Shuang Wu2, Wei Xia3, Yulong Liu4, and Yunhai Zhang1,2
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  • 1School of Biomedical Engineering (Suzhou), Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, Anhui , China
  • 2Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Medical Optics, Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou 215163, Jiangsu , China
  • 3The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, Jiangsu , China
  • 4The Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou 215004, Jiangsu , China
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    To address the issue of degraded image quality caused by interline misalignment in images when line-by-line sampling is performed for imaging in laser-scanning confocal microscopic imaging systems, a dislocation correction method is proposed in this study. Based on prior knowledge that the similarity between natural image lines is high, this study calculates the cross-correlation of even and odd rows of dislocated image to obtain the line misalignment. Additionally, the effect of the image dark regions on the misalignment calculation is eliminated using the k-means clustering algorithm, and the total misalignment is calculated. Under the scanning imaging process, the image is converted into one-dimensional data. Subsequently, a method based on the Fourier transform is used to correct the image data in the frequency domain at the subpixel level. Experiments conducte using the self-constructed laser-scanning confocal imaging system verifies that the proposed algorithm reduces the misalignment by ~96% in a high-speed imaging scene featuring 30 frame/s. Thus, it can effectively correct the dislocation image and offers a certain robustness.

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    Haibin Wan, Wei Huang, Lin Ji, Shuang Wu, Wei Xia, Yulong Liu, Yunhai Zhang. Interline Dislocation Correction for Laser-Scanning Confocal High-Speed Microscopic Imaging[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2025, 62(6): 0611004

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    Paper Information

    Category: Imaging Systems

    Received: May. 17, 2024

    Accepted: Sep. 12, 2024

    Published Online: Mar. 4, 2025

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    DOI:10.3788/LOP241305

    CSTR:32186.14.LOP241305

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