Bacterial colony counting using distance transform.
A distance-transform based technique is presented for the segmentation of monochrome images of colonies grown on membrane filters. This is used to count the number of Escherichia coli in a given water sample, which is used as a parameter for determining water quality. The result is compared with fuzzy c-means clustering approach.
Mukherjee
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National Centre for Knowledge Based Computing, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta.
Pal
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Sarma
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Majumder
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D000465:Algorithms; D015169:Colony Count, Microbial / Q000379:methods*; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D005374:Filtration / Q000295:instrumentation; D017143:Fuzzy Logic; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D008567:Membranes, Artificial; D008838:Microcomputers; D010363:Pattern Recognition, Automated; D014871:Water Microbiology
D008567:Membranes, Artificial