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Machine vision (video image analysis) is a strategy for collecting visual information (with a camera) from a specimen, and allowing the visible (appearance) characteristics of the specimen to be rigorously, numerically interpreted with the aid of computer. The image, stored in the memory of a computer, provides an extremely detailed representation of a specimen. Consequently, the image, rather than the live specimen, can be subjected to rigorous examination, measurement, and manipulation. For these reasons, image analysis advances a very useful tactic for analyzing characteristics of a biological/in vitro specimen in detail, without invading the environment of the actual specimen itself, except for the brief moment of image capture (acquisition of an image with a camera).
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Smith, M.A.L. (1995). Machine Vision Analysis of Plant Cells and Somatic Embryos. In: Bajaj, Y.P.S. (eds) Somatic Embryogenesis and Synthetic Seed I. Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry, vol 30. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03091-2_7
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