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Estimation of Anti-bacterial Culture Activity from Digital Images

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Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (IbPRIA 2003)

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The purpose of this paper is to describe a method developed for estimation of the diameter of circular disks resulting from anti-bacterial cultures, immersed in a bacterial gel, using digital images of the growth recipients (Petri dishes). This methodology uses a chain of several image processing algorithms that are applied to the Petri dishes images until a set of diameter estimates are produced. The experimental protocol is presented and the results are analyzed in terms of the best non-linear filtering method as a function of the diameter error estimate at the output of the system.

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  1. INESC-ID, SIPS, Apartado 13069, 1000-029, Lisboa, Portugal

    José Jasnau Caeiro

  2. Instituto Politécnico de Beja, ESTIG, P-7800-050, Beja, Portugal

    José Jasnau Caeiro & Armando Ventura

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  1. Unitat de Gràfics i Visió per Ordinador Departament de Ciències Matemàtiques i Informàtica, Universitat de les Illes Balears Edifici Anselm Turmeda, Ctra. de Valldemossa km 7,5, 07122, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

    Francisco José Perales

  2. FEUP - Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465, Porto, Portugal

    Aurélio J. C. Campilho

  3. Departamento de Ciencias da la Computacíon e I.A., Universidad de Granada, E.T. S. Ing. Informática, 18071, Granada, Spain

    Nicolás Pérez de la Blanca

  4. Dept. System Engineering and Automation, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) Barcelona, Spain

    Alberto Sanfeliu

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Caeiro, J.J., Ventura, A. (2003). Estimation of Anti-bacterial Culture Activity from Digital Images. In: Perales, F.J., Campilho, A.J.C., de la Blanca, N.P., Sanfeliu, A. (eds) Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis. IbPRIA 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2652. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-44871-6_41

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