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Mobile Application for Automatic Counting of Bacterial Colonies

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Trends and Applications in Software Engineering (CIMPS 2016)

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In the following article it is proposed the design and implementation of a mobile application using a computer vision system that allows to count bacterial colonies in microbial cultures, decreasing significantly the time of quantification and generating a standard counting method for mobile devices running Android OS.

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  1. Unidad Profesional Interdisciplinaria de Ingeniería Campus Zacatecas – IPN, Blvd. del Bote S/N Cerro del Gato Ejido La Escondida, Col. Ciudad Administrativa, Zacatecas, Zacatecas, 98160, México

    Erika Sánchez-Femat, Roberto Cruz-Leija, Mayra Torres-Hernández & Elsa Herrera-Mayorga

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  1. Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas, Unidad Zactecas Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas, Zacatecas, Mexico

    Jezreel Mejia

  2. Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas, Unidad Zactecas Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas, Zacatecas, Mexico

    Mirna Muñoz

  3. Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Coimbra, Portugal

    Álvaro Rocha

  4. Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos e Inge, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos e Inge, Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, Spain

    Tomas San Feliu

  5. Departamento de Ciencias Computacionales, Universidad de Guadalajara Departamento de Ciencias Computacionales, Guadalajara, Mexico

    Adriana Peña

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Sánchez-Femat, E., Cruz-Leija, R., Torres-Hernández, M., Herrera-Mayorga, E. (2017). Mobile Application for Automatic Counting of Bacterial Colonies. In: Mejia, J., Muñoz, M., Rocha, Á., San Feliu, T., Peña, A. (eds) Trends and Applications in Software Engineering. CIMPS 2016. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 537. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48523-2_21

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