University of Memphis Herff College of Engineering Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Dr. Chrysanthe Preza CIRL
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Computational Optical Sectioning Microscopy

        The COSM open source (COSMOS) software package is currently under development by the Computational Imaging Research Laboratory (CIRL) led by Dr.Preza. COSMOS has four platform-independent graphical user interfaces (GUIs) developed using a visualization tool kit for PSF generation, intensity estimation, image visualization and performance analysis. In the estimation GUI there are currently 5 different algorithms for data processing: the Depth Variant Expectation Maximization algorithm [1], a linear least square algorithm [2] , a linear maximum a posteriori algorithm [3], the Jansen-van Cittert algorithm [4], and the Expectation Maximization algorithm [5]. Three out of five algorithms and the PSF generation software were available in the original XCOSM package developed for X-windows in the early 1990s and disseminated by the PI and collaborators [6]. The COSMOS package replaces the XCOSM package and provides new and upgraded capabilities.


References:
  1. Preza, C. and Conchello, J-A., “Depth-variant maximum-likelihood restoration for three-dimensional fluorescence microscopy,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. A., 21:1593-1601, 2004.
  2. Preza, C., Miller, M. I., Thomas, Jr., L. J., and McNally, J. G., “Regularized linear method for reconstruction of three-dimensional microscopic objects from optical sections,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. A., 9(2):219-228, 1992.
  3. Preza, C., Miller, M. I., and Conchello, J.-A., “Image reconstruction for 3-D light microscopy with a regularized linear method incorporating a smoothness prior,” in Biomedical Image Processing and Biomedical Visualization, R. S. Acharya and D. B. Goldgof, Eds., Proc. SPIE 1905:129-139, 1993.
  4. Agard, D. A., ‘‘Optical sectioning microscopy,’’ Annu. Rev. Biophys. Bioeng., 13:191–219, 1984.
  5. Conchello, J.-A., "Super-resolution and convergence properties of the expectation-maximization algorithm for maximum-likelihood deconvolution of incoherent images", J. Opt. Soc. Am. A, 15:2609-2620, 1998.
  6. XCOSM software package