Preprocessing of images of Petri dishes

Description

The package contains demo of preprocessing of images of Petri dishes containing yeast colonies. The algorithms, contained in this demo, represent one part of a software tool used to determine relative coverage of the dish, to estimate the number of colonies, and, using simple graphical tool, to correct this estimate.

The algorithms, contained in the package, perform thresholding of an image so that the background is eliminated, exact localization of the dish and finally determine the diameter of the dish image. The exact way of processing is described in the included documentation.

The output of the demo, contained in the package, are two images: the original (grayscale) image with markings of the dish center and the region-of-interest and the cropped image with thresholding and cropping, containing (grayscale) yeast colonies on a black background, with circle marking the region-of-interest.

Package Summary

Title Preprocessing of images of Petri dishes
Filename dishpreproc.zip
License GPL
(See the 'gpl.txt' file in the package.)
Package content ZIP archive containing demo running in the Matlab environment, sample images, documentation
Size 5249048 Bytes
Required tools
& platform
Matlab 2008b, Image Processing Toolbox
Installation notes
  • Download package
  • Unzip package
  • Open the Demo directory in the Matlab environment
  • Run demo by calling the demo.m function
See the 'doc/sw_petri_preproc.pdf' file, contained in the package.

Result Category

Project number Contract section Year RIV category Comment
1M0567 VS1 2009 S Functional sample (demo)

Contact Person

Please, do not hesitate to contact Zdenek Pohl to obtain more information.