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Spiral Bacterial Cell Image Analysis using Active Contour Method
| International Journal of Computer Applications |
| Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
| Volume 37 - Number 8 |
| Year of Publication: 2012 |
| Authors: P.S. Hiremath, Parashuram Bannigidad |
10.5120/4626-6650
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P.S. Hiremath, Parashuram Bannigidad . Spiral Bacterial Cell Image Analysis using Active Contour Method. International Journal of Computer Applications. 37, 8 ( January 2012), 5-9. DOI=10.5120/4626-6650
Abstract
Image segmentation is a fundamental task in image analysis responsible for partitioning an image into multiple sub-regions based on a desired feature. Active contours have been widely used as attractive image segmentation methods because they always produce sub-regions with continuous boundaries, while the kernel-based edge detection methods, e.g. Sobel edge detectors, often produce discontinuous boundaries. The objective of the present study is to develop an automatic tool to identify and classify the different types of spiral bacterial cells in digital microscopic cell images using active contour method. Geometric features are used to identify the arrangement of spiral bacterial cells, namely, vibrio, spirillum and spirochete. The current methods rely on the subjective reading of profiles by a human expert based on the various manual staining methods. In this paper, we propose a method for bacterial classification by segmenting digital spiral bacterial cell images and extracting only three geometric features for cell classification using different classifiers, namely, 3s classifier, K-NN classifier, Neural Network classifier and Neuro Fuzzy classifiers. The experimental results are compared with the manual results obtained by the microbiology expert and demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed method.
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