Non-heuristic automatic techniques for overcoming low signal-to-noise-ratio bias of localization microscopy and multiple signal classification algorithm

Localization microscopy and multiple signal classification algorithm use temporal stack of image frames of sparse emissions from fluorophores to provide super-resolution images. Localization microscopy localizes emissions in each image independently and later collates the localizations in all the fr...

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Main Authors: Agarwal, Krishna, Macháň, Radek, Prasad, Dilip Kumar
Other Authors: School of Computer Science and Engineering
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2018
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/87383
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/45392
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English
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Summary:Localization microscopy and multiple signal classification algorithm use temporal stack of image frames of sparse emissions from fluorophores to provide super-resolution images. Localization microscopy localizes emissions in each image independently and later collates the localizations in all the frames, giving same weight to each frame irrespective of its signal-to-noise ratio. This results in a bias towards frames with low signal-to-noise ratio and causes cluttered background in the super-resolved image. User-defined heuristic computational filters are employed to remove a set of localizations in an attempt to overcome this bias. Multiple signal classification performs eigen-decomposition of the entire stack, irrespective of the relative signal-to-noise ratios of the frames, and uses a threshold to classify eigenimages into signal and null subspaces. This results in under-representation of frames with low signal-to-noise ratio in the signal space and over-representation in the null space. Thus, multiple signal classification algorithms is biased against frames with low signal-to-noise ratio resulting into suppression of the corresponding fluorophores. This paper presents techniques to automatically debias localization microscopy and multiple signal classification algorithm of these biases without compromising their resolution and without employing heuristics, user-defined criteria. The effect of debiasing is demonstrated through five datasets of invitro and fixed cell samples.