Multi-Focus Images Fusion for Fluorescence Imaging Based on Local Maximum Luminosity and Intensity Variance

Abstract

Due to the limitations on the depth of field of high-resolution fluorescence microscope, it is difficult to obtain an image with all objects in focus. The existing image fusion methods suffer from blocking effects or out-of-focus fluorescence. The proposed multi-focus image fusion method based on local maximum luminosity, intensity variance and the information filling method can reconstruct the all-in-focus image. Moreover, the depth of tissue’s surface can be estimated to reconstruct the 3D surface model.