Colony detecting and analysis

This work presents algorithms for automatically delineating colonies in microbiology engineering. The algorithm procedure consists of image preprocessing, image classification, edge detection, thresholding, colony boundary tracing, split based on shape analysis and color detection. A number of image processing and segmentation algorithms are included in a system, after image classification, the system configure a colony delineating algorithm procedure for each of the corresponding classes, that means that five classes have five different colony delineating algorithm procedures. The algorithms can automatically delineate colonies not only on a simple image and also on a complex image. The algorithms have been tested in different laboratories, they work well.