Dataset for Fast, high precision autofocus on a motorised microscope: Automating blood sample imaging on the OpenFlexure Microscope
Example images and analysis code to support the development and publication of a smart stack procedure to use closed loop movements in an autofocus procedure. Includes examples on how images can be processed and tiled, analysed to find the focal plane, and stacks tested to find the distribution of sharpest images within stacks across a large scan or collection of scans.
Cite this dataset as:
Knapper, J.,
2021.
Dataset for Fast, high precision autofocus on a motorised microscope: Automating blood sample imaging on the OpenFlexure Microscope.
Bath: University of Bath Research Data Archive.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.15125/BATH-01063.
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Data
USAF.zip
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Stack of images taken on the OpenFlexure Microscope of a USAF target corner using a 40x objective.
zea.zip
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Stack of images taken on the OpenFlexure Microscope of a zea seed using a 40x objective.
tile_example.zip
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An example of the data generated by a smart stack scan, ready to be processed and tiled. Images are of a thick blood sample, taken on the OpenFlexure Microscope using a 100x oil immersion objective. For tiling, approximate overlap is 30%
Code
smart_stack_processing.ipynb
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Software: GNU GPL 3.0
Jupyter notebook to take a completed smart stack folder and create a folder containing only the central images, ready to be tiled using Fiji distribution of ImageJ. Used to prepare images for Figure 7
peak_plot.ipynb
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Jupyter notebook to produce histograms of the position of sharpest images in stacks produced by different focus methods. The underpinning images used are not included, but the results are included here as an example and to allow the notebook to plot. Used to produce Figure 8.
comparison.ipynb
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Software: GNU GPL 3.0
Jupyter notebook to plot the JPEG and Laplacian sharpnesses of a z-stack of images. Users can use their own images or the example images used in the paper, manually judging a focused range. To recreate Figures 3 and 5, zea.zip and USAF.zip are required. The path in the fourth cell should be changed to the input folder (either `zea/8` or `USAF/11` assuming `zea.zip` and `USAF.zip` are extracted into the corresponding folders). The focused range is manually specified in the fifth cell.
Creators
Joe Knapper
University of Bath
Documentation
Data collection method:
Standard OpenFlexure optics calibration was performed before collecting images to improve the reliability of movements in x-y, and to improve the lens shading across each image.
Technical details and requirements:
All images collected on an OpenFlexure Microscope. The OpenFlexure software version used for this development is archived at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5541934 Written in Python 3.8.2, with requirements given by requirements.txt
Additional information:
Full details of the collection methods, analysis and motivation are included in the associated publication.
Documentation Files
requirements.txt
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Requirements file to allow recreation of the environment included code was written and ran in
README.md
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README file explaining the code, data and figures associated with this archive
Funders
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000266
Detailed Malaria Diagnostics with Intelligent Microscopy
EP/R013969/1
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000266
Automated microscopy for high-throughput malaria research.
EP/R011443/1
Royal Society
https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000288
UR Fellowship - Robotic microscopy for globally accessible science & healthcare
URF\R1\180153
Publication details
Publication date: 9 October 2021
by: University of Bath
Version: 1
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15125/BATH-01063
URL for this record: https://researchdata.bath.ac.uk/id/eprint/1063
Related papers and books
Knapper, J., Collins, J. T., Stirling, J., McDermott, S., Wadsworth, W., and Bowman, R. W., 2021. Fast, highâprecision autofocus on a motorised microscope: Automating blood sample imaging on the OpenFlexure Microscope. Journal of Microscopy, 285(1), 29-39. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/jmi.13064.
Contact information
Please contact the Research Data Service in the first instance for all matters concerning this item.
Contact person: Joe Knapper
Faculty of Science
Physics
Research Centres & Institutes
Centre for Biosensors, Bioelectronics and Biodevices (C3Bio)
