Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Advanced Computer Science and Electronics Information (ICACSEI 2013)

Automated Counting and Identification of Cell Colonies Based on Distance Transform and Progressive Erosion

Authors
Zhi feng Hu
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Zhi feng Hu
Available Online August 2013.
DOI
10.2991/icacsei.2013.34How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Digital Image Processing, Automated Colony Identification, Distance Transform.
Abstract

In this paper, a novel algorithm is proposed to facilitate the automated counting and identification of cell colonies in a Petri dish. In order to detect all the individual colonies, the original Petri dish image is converted to a black white version, after which a distance transform is carried out to highlight the colony centers. Finally, a progressive erosion approach is adopted to isolate and identify all the individual colonies. Experiment results show that the algorithm performs well on practical Petri dish images.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Advanced Computer Science and Electronics Information (ICACSEI 2013)
Series
Advances in Intelligent Systems Research
Publication Date
August 2013
ISBN
978-90-78677-74-1
ISSN
1951-6851
DOI
10.2991/icacsei.2013.34How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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