Microorganisms such as bacteria and fungi play essential roles in many application fields,
like biotechnique, medical technique and industrial domain. Microorganism counting …

Counting circular objects such as cell colonies is an important source of information for
biologists. Although this task is often time-consuming and subjective, it is still predominantly …

Counting bacterial colonies on microbiological culture plates is a time-consuming, error-
prone, nevertheless essential quantitative task in Clinical Microbiology Laboratories. With …

A growing number of routine and research activities, in a wide variety of fields, have the
counting of certain types of objects (cells, people, insects, etc.) as one of their main …

Background and objectives. Deep learning models and specifically Convolutional Neural
Networks (CNNs) are becoming the leading approach in many computer vision tasks …

Clonogenic assays are a useful tool to test whether a given cancer therapy can reduce the
clonogenic survival of tumour cells. A colony is defined as a cluster of at least 50 cells which …

Research on microorganisms often involves culturing as a means to determine the survival
and proliferation of bacteria. The number of colonies in a culture is counted to calculate the …

Determination of the number of colonies (colony forming units, CFU) is a standard method in
microbiological analysis to ensure the quality of drinking water. Normally this tedious work is …

Observing microbial colonies is the standard method for determining the microbe titer and
investigating the behaviors of microbes. Here, we report an automated, real-time bacterial …

In this work we introduce the confluent and various sizes image analysis method
(COVASIAM), an automated colony count technique that uses digital imaging technology for …