Everything about Color normalization

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Color normalizationA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Robustness of machine learning to color, size change, normalization, and image enhancement on micrograph datasets with large sample differencesInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Report of Superintendent of State Colored Normal Schools and Cherokee Indian Normal School of Robeson County for the years 1914-1915 and 1915-1916The most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Structure-Preserving Color Normalization and Sparse Stain Separation for Histological ImagesCited 824 times
5. Go sideways: Histogram equalizationA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Otsu's methodA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Structure-Preserving Color Normalization and Sparse Stain Separation for Histological Images

  Abhishek Vahadane, Tingying Peng, Amit Sethi · 2016 · IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging · 824 citations

• A study about color normalization methods for histopathology images

  Santanu Roy, Alok kumar Jain, Shyam Lal · 2018 · Micron · 184 citations

• A Complete Color Normalization Approach to Histopathology Images Using Color Cues Computed From Saturation-Weighted Statistics

  Xingyu Li, Konstantinos N. Plataniotis · 2015 · IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering · 124 citations

• Adaptive color deconvolution for histological WSI normalization

  Yushan Zheng, Zhiguo Jiang, Haopeng Zhang · 2019 · Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine · 107 citations

• Color space normalization: Enhancing the discriminating power of color spaces for face recognition

  Jian Yang, Chengjun Liu, Lei Zhang · 2010 · Pattern Recognition · 91 citations

• Influence of normalization and color space to color texture classification

  E. Cernadas, M. Fernández-Delgado, E. González-Rufino · 2017 · Pattern Recognition · 84 citations

• Goulphar: rapid access and expertise for standard two-color microarray normalization methods

  Sophie Lemoine, Florence Combes, Nicolas Servant · 2006 · BMC Bioinformatics · 60 citations

• Normalization of boutique two-color microarrays with a high proportion of differentially expressed probes

  Alicia Oshlack, Dianne Emslie, Lynn M Corcoran · 2007 · Genome Biology · 57 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Robustness of machine learning to color, size change, normalization, and image enhancement on micrograph datasets with large sample differences

  Xiaolong Pei, Yu hong Zhao, Liwen Chen · 2023 · Materials & Design · 117 citations

• Generative models for color normalization in digital pathology and dermatology: Advancing the learning paradigm

  Massimo Salvi, Francesco Branciforti, Filippo Molinari · 2024 · Expert Systems with Applications · 45 citations

• Impact of stain variation and color normalization for prognostic predictions in pathology

  Siyu Lin, Haowen Zhou, Mark Watson · 2025 · Scientific Reports · 37 citations

• CSNTSteg: Color Spacing Normalization Text Steganography Model to Improve Capacity and Invisibility of Hidden Data

  Reema Thabit, Nur Izura Udzir, Sharifah Md Yasin · 2022 · IEEE Access · 34 citations

• The role of unpaired image-to-image translation for stain color normalization in colorectal cancer histology classification

  Nicola Altini, Tommaso Maria Marvulli, Francesco Alfredo Zito · 2023 · Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine · 29 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Report of Superintendent of State Colored Normal Schools and Cherokee Indian Normal School of Robeson County for the years 1914-1915 and 1915-1916E. E. Sams · 1917
• Prospectus of souvenir history of the Wharton orphanages for the care of destitute children · 1899
• 📕First annual catalogue of the North Carolina State Colored Normal Schools for 1904-'05North Carolina. Department of Public Instruction. State Colored Normal Schools · 1905
• 📕Catalogue of the State Colored Normal School, Plymouth, N.C., 1890-'91State Colored Normal School (Plymouth, N.C.) · 1891
• The clawColored Agricultural and Normal University (Langston, Okla.)
• 📕Myrtilla Miner papersMyrtilla Miner
• Analysis of the urineKarl Berthold Hofmann , Robert Ultzmann · 1879
• Analysis of the Urine: With Special Reference to the Disease of the Genito ...Karl Berthold Hofmann , Robert Ultzmann · 1886

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