Rapid determination of bacterial abundance, biovolume, morphology, and growth by neural network-based image analysis

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 3246-3255

  Blackburn, Nicholas ^a   Hagström, Åke ^b,d   Wikner, Johan ^c   Cuadros Hansson, Rocio ^c   BjØrnsen, Peter Koefoed ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BACTERIOPLANKTON; ESTIMATION METHOD; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL VOLUME; DYNAMICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PLANKTON; SEA; TECHNIQUE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0031662723     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.9.3246-3255.1998     Document Type: Article

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