Fluorescence microscopies have been used as an essential tool in biomedical research, because of better signal to noise
ratio compared to other microscopies. Among the various kinds of fluorescence microscopies, wide field fluorescence
microscopy (WFFM) and confocal fluorescence microscopy are generally most widely used. While confocal microscopy
image has higher clarity than WFFM, it is not suitable for live cells because of a number of major drawbacks such as
photo-bleaching and low image acquisition speed. The purpose of this paper is to obtain clearer live cell images by restoring
degraded WFFM image. Many studies have been carried out for the purpose of obtaining clearer live cell images
by restoring degraded WFFM images, while most of them are not based on regularized MLE (Maximum likelihood estimator)
which restores the image by maximizing Poisson likelihood. However, the MLE method is not robust to noise
because of ill posed problems. Actually, Gaussian as well as Poisson noise exists in the WFFM image. There are some
approaches to improve noise robustness, but these methods cannot guarantee the convergence of likelihood. The purpose
of this paper is to obtain clearer live cell images by restoring degraded WFFM images utilizing a robust deconvolution
method for WFFM using generalized expectation maximization (GEM) algorithm that guarantees the convergence of a
regularized likelihood. Moreover, we actualized a blind deconvolution that can restore the images and estimate point
spread function (PSF) simultaneously, while most other researches assume that the PSF is previously known. We performed
the proposed algorithm on fluorescent bead and cell images. Our results show that the proposed method restores
more accurately than existing methods.
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