The freely available software module below is a 3D LoG filter. It applies a LoG (Laplacian of Gaussian or Mexican Hat) filter to a 2D image or to 3D volume. Here, we have a fast implementation. It is a perfect tool to enhance spots, like spherical particles, in noisy images. This module is easy to tune, only by selecting the standard deviations in X, Y and Z directions.
This method was originally designed to track objects (not necessarily spots) already identified in 2D
frames and has been applied previously to particle tracking and analysis in high-speed atomic force microscopy image series.