Citizen Science/Open Colony Counter Project

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Open Colony Counter Project

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Driving forces:

Team:

Vincent 13:06, 1 August 2010 (EDT): feel free to comment.

General:
- can detect and count microbial colonies
- accepted plate format: 60-90mm plates or multi-well plate format
- desktop device for the wetlab bench
- requires a PC (windows, osx, or linux)
- Laser-cut design for the casing
- lab automation friendly design
- Open Source design
Available Measurements:
- colony count
- individual colony properties (size, roundness, position)
- export in CSV format or local database
- PDF/HTML report with overlaid image with detection results + colony statistics
Image processing:
- one-step processing for the user
- colony count in less than 3 seconds.
- automatic background detection
- utilizes LED illumination to optimize contrast between colonies and substrate.
- possible manual colony count editing for improved count.
- USB Webcam as an image acquisition device

the user places his/her plate inside the colony counter
the user opens the colony counting application on the attached PC
the user triggers the image acquistion and counting by pressing a single button
results are displayed as an overlay on the acquired image
if required, the user can adapt image processing parameters to improve detection
the user can then export results in various format (CSV, HTML, PDF)

Vincent 13:06, 1 August 2010 (EDT): feel free to comment.

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