Computer Assisted Microscopy ― Research and Education

摘要

Development of microscopy has gained new pace with the birth of user friendly computers and operating systems. Interaction between computers and microscopes was first restricted to processing of structural and compositional data as well as image information. The availability of high speed analog to digital converters has rendered data acquisition to one of the tasks performed by computers. Today processing contains information feedback and the burden of microscope operation and setup is also taken over by the hardware and software invisibly operating behind the instrument panel. Artificial intelligence, adaptive systems, and cellular neural networks open previously unforeseen perspectives to end users and to engineers involved in microscope development as well.