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Image Processing & Correction

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TermDescription
Background Removal Estimates the slowly varying illumination pattern and subtracts it, so intensity reflects the sample, not the lamp.
Classifier A machine-learning engine that learns from examples you label to recognize tissue structures or classes.
Color Separation Splits a brightfield color image into one channel per stain, such as hematoxylin and DAB, by color deconvolution.
Otsu Threshold Otsu Threshold Engine (Global) An automatic threshold: picks the cutoff that best separates two pixel populations in the histogram.
Projection Z-Stack Projection Engine Combines a z-stack into one all-in-focus image by keeping the sharpest information from each plane.
Spectral Unmixing Separates overlapping fluorophore signals into pure channels using reference spectra.
Virtual Channel Virtual Channel Engine A computed channel built from existing ones, such as a sum, difference, or ratio, usable like an acquired one.
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