Contagem de colônias de bactérias utilizando redes neuras convolucionais

Abstract

The counting of bacterial colonies is an arduous and extremely important job for biomedicine. It is so important for research carried out in the laboratory because with the number of bacterial colonies in each sample, this is where the definition of how much and which antibiotic will be used, the existing pollution within the sample is also analyzed. Today the counting is performed manually by professionals in the area. The purpose of this job is to carry out the automated counting of the bacterial colony in petri dishes to assist in the productivity and performance of professionals in the area, the approaches that will be used consists in using digital images together with Deep learning techniques.