A dynamic parallel image acquisition method for slide scanning process

Bowen Zhong; Zhan Liao; Xiaopeng Hao; Junjie Hu; Lining Sun

doi:10.1016/j.micron.2023.103536

A dynamic parallel image acquisition method for slide scanning process

Micron. 2023 Dec:175:103536. doi: 10.1016/j.micron.2023.103536. Epub 2023 Sep 9.

Authors

Bowen Zhong¹, Zhan Liao², Xiaopeng Hao², Junjie Hu², Lining Sun²

Affiliations

¹ The College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Soochow University, Suzhou 215000, China. Electronic address: zhbw@suda.edu.cn.
² The College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Soochow University, Suzhou 215000, China.

PMID: 37703802
DOI: 10.1016/j.micron.2023.103536

Abstract

Automated microscope systems have played an important role in the screening of numerous diseases. However, it is a very time-consuming process to continuously acquire images under the high magnification objective lens. This paper proposes a dynamic parallel image acquisition method, which can greatly improve image acquisition speed. Due to the relative motion between the x-y stage and the camera, some of the captured images have motion blur To this end, we also designed a motor variable speed motion curve to ensure the quality of the collected images. The experimental results show that the traditional image scanning mode needs 47.3 ms to obtain continuous microscopic images, while the dynamic parallel image acquisition method only needs 25.4 ms, which improves the acquisition speed without affecting the clarity of the acquired images.

Keywords: Microscopy; Scanning.