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## The Anscombe Transform
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The Anscombe Transform is a variance-stabilizing transformation specifically designed for data with Poisson noise. In photon-limited imaging, the noise variance equals the signal mean (characteristic of Poisson statistics), which makes compression difficult because different intensity levels have different noise characteristics.
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The Anscombe Transform is a variance-stabilizing transformation specifically designed for data with Poisson noise. In photon-limited imaging, the noise variance grows linearly with the signal mean (characteristic of Poisson statistics),
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which makes compression difficult because different intensity levels have different noise characteristics.
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### The Problem
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### Accuracy
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The codec is designed to be **nearly lossless** for photon-limited data:
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- Typical error: < 1 photon per pixel
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- Error scales with `conversion_gain` and quantization (`beta` parameter)
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- For well-chosen parameters, reconstruction error is below the noise floor
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- Mean absolute error: < 0.25 noise-sigma per pixel (for beta = 0.5)
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- Error scales with quantization (`beta` parameter)
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- For default parameters (beta=0.5), the noise variance is increased by a ~1 % with respect to the original noise variance and no bias is introduced.
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## When to Use This Codec
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