Automated image analysis to improve bead ingestion toxicity test counts in the protozoan Tetrahymena pyriformis

Letters in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 230-233

  Dias, N ^a   Amaral, A L ^a,b   Ferreira, E C ^a   Lima, Nelson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO DE BRAGANÇA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Bead counts; Image analysis; Ingestion; Tetrahymena pyriformis; Toxicity tests

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; TOXICITY;

AUTOMATED IMAGE ANALYSIS; BEAD COUNT; CELL-BE; CELL/B.E; CELL/BE; IMAGE-ANALYSIS; INGESTION; LATEX BEADS; TETRAHYMENA PYRIFORMIS; TOXICITY TEST;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

LATEX;

IMAGE ANALYSIS; INGESTION RATE; PROTOZOAN; TOXICITY TEST;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; ERROR; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INGESTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; OPERATOR; PROTOZOON; TETRAHYMENA PYRIFORMIS; TOXICITY TESTING;

PROTOZOA; TETRAHYMENA; TETRAHYMENA PYRIFORMIS;

EID: 0042880000     PISSN: 02668254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1472-765X.2003.01382.x     Document Type: Article

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