bglnelissen / slideToolkit

slideToolkit: a free toolset for analyzing full size virtual histology slides
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Use a histogram to find 'empty' tiles (slide2Tiles) #4

Closed bglnelissen closed 10 years ago

bglnelissen commented 10 years ago

now we use filesize to find empty tiles, we need to use histograms in the future.

bglnelissen commented 10 years ago

Adaptive thresholding is probably what we want. Look at: http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8285&start=0 for further info. http://www.multipole.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=11297 use -normalize

bglnelissen commented 10 years ago

CellProfiler does a better job finding tissue. No need to do this when checking for empty tiles.