Yeast Colony Counter

0348217 - ÚTIA 2011 RIV CZ eng L4 - Software
Schier, Jan - Kovář, Bohumil
Yeast Colony Counter.
Internal code: Yeast Colony Counter ; 2010
Technical parameters: DVD + doprovodný text
Economic parameters: 1500000
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT(CZ) 1M0567
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z10750506
Keywords : Automated colony counting * Image processing * Fast radial transform * Matlab * Petri dish evaluation
Subject RIV: JC - Computer Hardware ; Software

The colony counter provides batch processing of a series of images of Petri dishes containing yeast colonies. It is aimed for a research laboratory using standard imaging equipment, where manual manipulation of the dishes is used, rather than specialized single-purpose camera system. It is assumed that dark background is used in the images. The tool evaluates two figures for the images: the relative coverage of the dish, and the number of colonies in the dish. It provides two modes of operation: automatic or semi-automatic. In the automatic mode, it processes the batch of images without any user intervention. In the semi-automatic mode, it first processes a dish and then it provides the user with an editor, where he can interactively correct the result of counting. The tool performs fully automatic thresholding of the image, dish localization and image segmentation. Two image formats are accepted at this moment: .jpg and .tiff. Other formats may be added on request.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0188803