Title
Segment fusion of ToF-SIMS images
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-2015
Abstract
The imaging capabilities of time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry(ToF-SIMS) have not been used to their full potential in the analysis of polymer and biological samples. Imaging has been limited by the size of the dataset and the chemical complexity of the sample being imaged. Pixel and segment based image fusion algorithms commonly used in remote sensing, ecology, geography, and geology provide a way to improve spatial resolution and classification of biological images. In this study, a sample of Arabidopsis thaliana was treated with silver nanoparticles and imaged with ToF-SIMS. These images provide insight into the uptake mechanism for the silver nanoparticles into the plant tissue, giving new understanding to the mechanism of uptake of heavy metals in the environment. The Munechika algorithm was programmed in-house and applied to achieve pixel based fusion, which improved the spatial resolution of the image obtained. Multispectral and quadtree segment or region based fusionalgorithms were performed using ecognition software, a commercially available remote sensing software suite, and used to classify the images. The Munechika fusion improved the spatial resolution for the images containing silvernanoparticles, while the segment fusion allowed classification and fusion based on the tissue types in the sample, suggesting potential pathways for the uptake of the silver nanoparticles.
Publication Title
Biointerphases
Recommended Citation
Milillo, T.,
Miller, M. E.,
Montes, A.,
&
Gardella, J.
(2015).
Segment fusion of ToF-SIMS images.
Biointerphases,
11(2).
http://doi.org/10.1116/1.4939680
Retrieved from: https://digitalcommons.mtu.edu/mtri_p/288
Publisher's Statement
© 2016 American Vacuum Society. Publisher's version of record: http://dx.doi.org/10.1116/1.4939680