Study of Protozoa population in wastewater treatment plants by image analysis

Protozoa are important microorganisms taking part to the ecosystem balance in wastewater treatment plants. A procedure for their semi-automated identification and counting based on image analysis is proposed. The main difficulty is the segmentation of the protozoa as most of them are in contact with...

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Main Author: Motta, Maurício da (author)
Other Authors: Pons, M. N. (author), Vivier, H. (author), Amaral, A. L. (author), Ferreira, Eugénio C. (author), Roche, N. (author), Mota, M. (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2001
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1822/1532
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/1532