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Since digital images are typically produced by stitching image sequences acquired from different fields of view, the visual quality of the images can be degraded owing to shading distortion, which produces black plaid patterns on the images. A shading correction method for brightfield WSI is presented, which is simple but robust not only against typical image artifacts caused by specks of dust and bubbles, but also against fixed-pattern noise, or spatial variations in pixel values under uniform illumination. The proposed method comprises primarily of two steps. The first step constructs candidates of a shading distortion model from a stack of input image sequences. The second step selects the optimal model from the candidates. The proposed method was compared experimentally with two previous state-of-the-art methods, regularized energy minimization (CIDRE) and background and shading correction (BaSiC) and showed better correction scores, as smooth operations and constraints were not imposed when estimating the shading distortion. The correction scores, averaged over 40 image collections, were as follows: proposed method, 0.39 \u00b1 0.099; CIDRE method, 0.67 \u00b1 0.047; BaSiC method, 0.55 \u00b1 0.038. Based on the quantitative evaluations, we can confirm that the proposed method can correct not only shading distortion, but also fixed-pattern noise, compared with the two previous state-of-the-art methods.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s20113084","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,6,2]],"date-time":"2020-06-02T09:19:27Z","timestamp":1591089567000},"page":"3084","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":13,"title":["Simple Shading Correction Method for Brightfield Whole Slide Imaging"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"20","author":[{"given":"Yoon-Oh","family":"Tak","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, the School of Mechanical Engineering, Gwangju 61005, Korea"},{"name":"Korea Photonics Technology Institute, Intelligent Photonic Sensor Research Center, Gwangju 61007, Korea"}]},{"given":"Anjin","family":"Park","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Korea Photonics Technology Institute, Intelligent Photonic Sensor Research Center, Gwangju 61007, Korea"}]},{"given":"Janghoon","family":"Choi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, the School of Mechanical Engineering, Gwangju 61005, Korea"},{"name":"Korea Photonics Technology Institute, Intelligent Photonic Sensor Research Center, Gwangju 61007, Korea"}]},{"given":"Jonghyun","family":"Eom","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Korea Photonics Technology Institute, Intelligent Photonic Sensor Research Center, Gwangju 61007, Korea"}]},{"given":"Hyuk-Sang","family":"Kwon","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, the School of Mechanical Engineering, Gwangju 61005, Korea"}]},{"given":"Joo Beom","family":"Eom","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Medicine, Dankook University, Cheonan-si 31116, Korea"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,5,29]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"23","article-title":"Whole slide imaging in pathology: Advantages, limitations, and emerging perspectives","volume":"7","author":"Farahani","year":"2015","journal-title":"Pathol. 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