NEW RECOGNITION AND IDENTIFICATION MERHOD FOR MICRO-ORGANISMS BY EXPERT SYSTEM DRIVEN IMAGE PROCESSING

  • Fukuda, Toshio (Nagoya University, Dept of Mechanical Engineering Furo-cho) ;
  • Hasegawa, Osamu (Graduate School of Science Universityof Tokyo, Dept. of Mech. Eng.)
  • Published : 1989.10.01

Abstract

A refined version of automatic micro-organism recognition and identification method, 'O.I.S.M.2' is proposed in this paper, using image processing based on an expert system. This proposed method is based on the segmentation of the organism image, characterizing segment features, which are independent of individual size and length. Complicated shapes of organisms are divided into basic shape segments defined in this paper such as lines, circles, ovals etc. Organisms can then be expressed simply in a set of segments, regardless their individual differences.

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