2D Gaussian fit

[zha...@gmail.com]

How can I fit a spot on an image to a 2D Gaussian function?
I have a Tiff image file, on it there's an almost round spot, e.g. laser profile.
Is there a way in mathematica to 2D Gaussian fit the spot?

[Szabolcs Horvát]

Hello,

The best way to do this would depend on the kinds of images you have
(i.e. how noisy they are, how many spots are there, etc.)

The functions here could be useful to you:

http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/guide/SegmentationAnalysis.html

For example ComponentMeasurements will help measure the spot and also
identify its centre. Then you could cut the spot from the image and
convert it to a matrix so you can use fitting methods such as those
implemented in NonlinearModelFit.

I recommend looking at this blog post as well:

http://blog.wolfram.com/2012/01/04/how-to-count-cells-annihilate-sailboats-and-warp-the-mona-lisa/

--
Szabolcs Horvát
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[Cisco Lane]

You might consider a polynomial fit to the logarithm of your data to the logarithm of the Gaussian, (which is a polynomial). A direct fit of the data to a Gaussian will minimize the square of the differences between the data and the Gaussian. This will tend to give large relative errors in the wings, and small relative errors in the spot. A logarithmic fit will minimize the relative errors, rather than the absolute errors. The "percent error" will be roughly the same over the entire field. I don't know if this is acceptable to you or not.

[FairView]

I'm kinda new to Mathematica. My above question should be devided into
2 parts:
1) how to read data from TIFF file (i.e. read image into intensity
matrix)
2) hot to fit the retrived data to a 2D Gaussian function