Sizing and counting of Saccharomyces cerevisiae floc populations by image analysis, using an automatically calculated threshold

Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 673-678

  Vicente, António ^a   Meinders, Jan Marten ^a   Teixeira, José António ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

floc counting; image analysis; Saccharomyces cerevisiae floc

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CALCULATIONS; CURVE FITTING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS;

AUTOMATICALLY CALCULATED THRESHOLD; FLOC COUNTING; IMAGE GRABBING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

YEAST;

ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; BIOMASS; CALCULATION; HISTOGRAM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 9444228202     PISSN: 00063592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bit.260510602     Document Type: Article

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