Some applications in forestry of biological digital image processing

Author

Peet, F.G. ; Sahota, T.S.

Author_Institution

Pacific Forestry Centre, Victoria, BC, Canada

Volume

2

fYear

1993

fDate

19-21 May 1993

Firstpage

598

Abstract

It is shown that chromatin (DNA) distribution patterns in the nuclei of insect cells provide predictors related to the future development of the insect population. The patterns are extracted from digital images of the nuclei. The systems described have been implemented at the Pacific Forestry Centre. In previous reports this has been demonstrated in laboratory populations; here it is demonstrated for field populations and therefore has great significance for forest managers. Systems for nematodes and electrophoresis gels are also described. There are many such opportunities in forestry to apply biological digital image processing for the extraction of information that is not evident to the human eye-brain combination

Keywords

DNA; biological techniques; forestry; pattern recognition; DNA; biological digital image processing; chromatin distribution patterns; electrophoresis gels; forestry; insect population; nematodes; Cameras; DNA; Data mining; Digital images; Fluctuations; Forestry; Gene expression; Humans; Image processing; Insects;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, Computers and Signal Processing, 1993., IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on

Conference_Location

Victoria, BC

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0971-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PACRIM.1993.407290

Filename

407290