VahadaneNormalizer

class VahadaneNormalizer[source]

Vahadane stain normalizer.

Normalize a patch to the stain appearance of the target image using the method of:

Vahadane, Abhishek, et al. “Structure-preserving color normalization and sparse stain separation for histological images.” IEEE transactions on medical imaging 35.8 (2016): 1962-1971.

This class contains code inspired by StainTools [https://github.com/Peter554/StainTools] written by Peter Byfield.

Examples

>>> from tiatoolbox.tools.stainnorm import VahadaneNormalizer
>>> norm = VahadaneNormalizer()
>>> norm.fit(target_img)
>>> norm_img = norm.transform(source_img)

Initialize VahadaneNormalizer.

Methods