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http://dx.doi.org/10.7472/jksii.2015.16.1.39

An Automatic Mobile Cell Counting System for the Analysis of Biological Image  

Seo, Jaejoon (Department of Computer Science, Kyonggi University)
Chun, Junchul (Department of Computer Science, Kyonggi University)
Lee, Jin-Sung (Department of Life Science, Kyonggi University)
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Journal of Internet Computing and Services / v.16, no.1, 2015 , pp. 39-46 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper presents an automatic method to detect and count the cells from microorganism images based on mobile environments. Cell counting is an important process in the field of biological and pathological image analysis. In the past, cell counting is done manually, which is known as tedious and time consuming process. Moreover, the manual cell counting can lead inconsistent and imprecise results. Therefore, it is necessary to make an automatic method to detect and count cells from biological images to obtain accurate and consistent results. The proposed multi-step cell counting method automatically segments the cells from the image of cultivated microorganism and labels the cells by utilizing topological analysis of the segmented cells. To improve the accuracy of the cell counting, we adopt watershed algorithm in separating agglomerated cells from each other and morphological operation in enhancing the individual cell object from the image. The system is developed by considering the availability in mobile environments. Therefore, the cell images can be obtained by a mobile phone and the processed statistical data of microorganism can be delivered by mobile devices in ubiquitous smart space. From the experiments, by comparing the results between manual and the proposed automatic cell counting we can prove the efficiency of the developed system.
Keywords
automatic cell counting; cell segmentation; morphological operation; watershed algorithm; HSV color model;
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