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Adaptive particle representation of fluorescence microscopy images.

ABSTRACT: Modern microscopes create a data deluge with gigabytes of data generated each second, and terabytes per day. Storing and processing this data is a severe bottleneck, not fully alleviated by data compression. We argue that this is because images are processed as grids of pixels. To address this, we propose a content-adaptive representation of fluorescence microscopy images, the Adaptive Particle Representation (APR). The APR replaces pixels with particles positioned according to image content. The APR overcomes storage bottlenecks, as data compression does, but additionally overcomes memory and processing bottlenecks. Using noisy 3D images, we show that the APR adaptively represents the content of an image while maintaining image quality and that it enables orders of magnitude benefits across a range of image processing tasks. The APR provides a simple and efficient content-aware representation of fluosrescence microscopy images.

SUBMITTER: Cheeseman BL

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6279843 | biostudies-other | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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Adaptive particle representation of fluorescence microscopy images.

Cheeseman Bevan L BL Günther Ulrik U Gonciarz Krzysztof K Susik Mateusz M Sbalzarini Ivo F IF

Nature communications 20181204 1

Modern microscopes create a data deluge with gigabytes of data generated each second, and terabytes per day. Storing and processing this data is a severe bottleneck, not fully alleviated by data compression. We argue that this is because images are processed as grids of pixels. To address this, we propose a content-adaptive representation of fluorescence microscopy images, the Adaptive Particle Representation (APR). The APR replaces pixels with particles positioned according to image content. Th ...[more]

PMID: 30514837

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