title: Non-distorted assemblage of the digital images of adjacent fields in histological sections.
abstract: In the following article a method is described for the distortion-free reassemblage of adjacent digitised microscopic images of histological sections. The correct positioning of the microscopic specimen is achieved via a computer-controlled scanning stage. During an internal calibration step the correction function for the image distortions and the parameters of the transformation scanning-stage-to image-coordinate system are determined. In the subsequent application phase the new positions the scanning stage has to move to can now be computed in such a way that the distortion-corrected digitised images of the section parts under consideration neatly fit together to one composite image.
authors.affiliation: Theoretische Nachrichtentechnik, Universität Hannover, Germany.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Westerkamp
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Gahm
mesh_terms: D002138:Calibration; D006652:Histological Techniques; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D008433:Mathematics; D008853:Microscopy / Q000379:methods