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Record W4415768228 · doi:10.30572/2018/kje/160437

IMPROVEMENT OF ELECTRON MICROSCOPE VIRUS IMAGES THROUGH SEGMENTATION AND CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT

2025· article· en· W4415768228 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueKufa Journal of Engineering · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicImage Processing Techniques and Applications
Canadian institutionsCouncil of Ministers of Education
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBrightnessSegmentationMicroscopyContrast (vision)HistogramHistogram equalizationMicroscopeElectron microscopeContrast enhancement

Abstract

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High-resolution imaging techniques are essential for accurately studying viruses and their effects. Due to their small size, viruses often require sophisticated imaging tools for successful detection and analysis. Microscopy techniques, such as electron microscopy or fluorescence microscopy, are commonly used to capture images of viruses. However, these images can sometimes lack contrast and detail, making it challenging to identify important structural features. This paper introduces a new method to enhance the gray-scale images of 36 electron microscope virus images by increasing contrast and brightness using dark channel prior and adapted histogram equalization used Otsu's segmentation. To determine the efficiency of the proposed method in improving microscopic images, it was compared with several other methods. The quality measurements demonstrated significant success, with entropy (EN) at 7.800, average gradient (AG) at 16.996, mean standard deviation (MSTD) at 44.321, and contrast enhancement measurement (CEM) at 0.8752. The results indicate the algorithm's effectiveness in preserving image clarity and enhancing its features in a superior manner

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.714
Threshold uncertainty score0.343

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.004
GPT teacher head0.246
Teacher spread0.243 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it