relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/823/
title: Restoration of the cantilever bowing distortion in Atomic Force Microscopy
creator: Tsaftaris, Sotirios A.
creator: Zujovic, Jana
creator: Katsaggelos, Aggelos K.
subject: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
subject: TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
description: Due to the mechanics of the Atomic Force Microscope (AFM),  there is a curvature distortion (bowing effect) present in the acquired images. At present, flattening such images requires human intervention to manually segment object data from the background, which is time consuming and highly inaccurate. In this paper, an automated algorithm to flatten lines from AFM images is presented. The proposed method classifies the data into objects and background, and fits convex lines in an iterative fashion. Results on real images from DNA wrapped carbon nanotubes (DNACNTs) and synthetic experiments are presented, demonstrating the  effectiveness of the proposed algorithm in increasing the resolution of the surface topography. In addition a link between the flattening problem and MRI inhomogeneity (shading) is given and the proposed method is compared to an entropy based MRI inhomogeniety correction method.
date: 2008-08
type: Conference or Workshop Item
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/823/1/Tsaftaris_2008c.pdf
identifier:   Tsaftaris, Sotirios A. and Zujovic, Jana and Katsaggelos, Aggelos K.  Restoration of the cantilever bowing distortion in Atomic Force Microscopy.  In: 16th European signal processing conference, August 2008, Lausanne, Switzerland         (2008)  
relation: http://www.eurasip.org/Proceedings/Eusipco/Eusipco2008/papers/1569105426.pdf