Automated quantification and sizing of unbranched filamentous cyanobacteria by model-based object-oriented image analysis

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1615-1622

  Zeder, Michael ^a   Van Den Wyngaert, Silke ^b   Köster, Oliver ^c   Felder, Kathrin M ^a   Pernthaler, Jakob ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c Zürich Water Supply ^*  (Switzerland)

^d Institute of Plant Biology   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOFLUORESCENCE; BASIC RESEARCH; BATCH PROCESSING; COMPOSITE IMAGES; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA SETS; DRINKING WATER QUALITY; ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLE; HIGH-THROUGHPUT; LARGE IMAGES; LENGTH DISTRIBUTIONS; LINE INTERCEPT METHODS; MICROSCOPE IMAGES; MICROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; MODEL-BASED; MORPHOTYPES; OBJECT-ORIENTED IMAGE ANALYSIS; PLANKTOTHRIX RUBESCENS; SEMI-AUTOMATED; USER INTERACTION;

AUTOMATION; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; FILAMENTS (LAMP); IMAGE ANALYSIS; POTABLE WATER; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

QUALITY CONTROL;

ACADEMIC RESEARCH; CYANOBACTERIUM; DATA SET; DRINKING WATER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MICROSCOPY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; CYANOBACTERIUM; CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMAGE PROCESSING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; VALIDATION STUDY;

BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CYANOBACTERIA; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE;

CYANOBACTERIA; PLANKTOTHRIX RUBESCENS;

EID: 77649211815     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02232-09     Document Type: Article

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