Automatic Detection of Freshwater Phytoplankton Specimens in Conventional Microscopy Images.

ABSTRACT: Water safety and quality can be compromised by the proliferation of toxin-producing phytoplankton species, requiring continuous monitoring of water sources. This analysis involves the identification and counting of these species which requires broad experience and knowledge. The automatization of these tasks is highly desirable as it would release the experts from tedious work, eliminate subjective factors, and improve repeatability. Thus, in this preliminary work, we propose to advance towards an automatic methodology for phytoplankton analysis in digital images of water samples acquired using regular microscopes. In particular, we propose a novel and fully automatic method to detect and segment the existent phytoplankton specimens in these images using classical computer vision algorithm

SUBMITTER: Rivas-Villar D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7700267 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature