# FQPath

A MATLAB package for No-Reference (NR) Focus Quality Assessment (FQA) of Digital Pathology Images

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## General purpose:  

-   You can use this MATLAB package to score no-reference (NR) focus quality assessment (FQA) of whole slide images in digital pathology to grade out-of-focus  

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## Requirements:

- MATLAB R2015b

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## MATLAB Codes:

### Demo function:  

-   demo_NR_FQA.m

### Utility functions:  

-   FQPath.m

- generalized_Gaussian_for_fitting.m

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## Publication  

*Hosseini, Mahdi S., Jasper AZ Brawley-Hayes, Yueyang Zhang, Lyndon Chan, Konstantinos N. Plataniotis, and Savvas Damaskinos. "[Focus Quality Assessment of High-Throughput Whole Slide Imaging in Digital Pathology](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8725582)." IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (2019)*  

You can also read the paper from [arXiv link](https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.06038)  

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## Author:  

Mahdi S. Hosseini  

Email: mahdi.hosseini@mail.utoronto.ca  

http://www.dsp.utoronto.ca/~mhosseini/  

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## Citation:  

@article{hosseini2019focus,   

  title={Focus Quality Assessment of High-Throughput Whole Slide Imaging in Digital Pathology},   

  author={Hosseini, Mahdi S and Brawley-Hayes, Jasper AZ and Zhang, Yueyang and Chan, Lyndon and Plataniotis, Konstantinos N and Damaskinos, Savvas},   

  journal={IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging},   

  year={2019},   

  publisher={IEEE}   

}