Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AUTOMATION AND COMPUTING
Volume 9, Issue 3, Pages 232-236Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s11633-012-0639-z
Keywords
Biomedical image processing; biomedical optical imaging; fluorescence; fluorescence reflectance imaging; imaging system
Funding
- National Basic Research Program of China (973 Programme) [2011CB707701]
- National Major Scientific Instrument and Equipment Development Project [2011YQ030114]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81071191, 60831003, 30930092, 30872633]
- Beijing Natural Science Foundation [3111003]
- Tsinghua-Yue-Yuen Medical Science Foundation
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Challenges remain in fluorescence reflectance imaging (FRI) in in vivo experiments, since the target fluorescence signal is often contaminated by the high level of background signal originated from autofluorescence and leakage of excitation light. In this paper, we propose an image subtraction algorithm based on two images acquired using two excitation filters with different spectral regions. One in vivo experiment with a mouse locally injected with fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC) was conducted to calculate the subtraction coefficient used in our studies and to validate the subtraction result when the exact position of the target fluorescence signal was known. Another in vivo experiment employing a nude mouse implanted with green fluorescent protein (GFP) - expressing colon tumor was conducted to demonstrate the performance of the employed method to extract target fluorescence signal when the exact position of the target fluorescence signal was unknown. The subtraction results show that this image subtraction algorithm can effectively extract the target fluorescence signal and quantitative analysis results demonstrate that the target- to- background ratio (TBR) can be significantly improved by 33.5 times after background signal subtraction.
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