scholarly journals Adaptive Bacteria Colony Picking in Unstructured Environments Using Intensity Histogram and Unascertained LS-SVM Classifier

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Kun Zhang ◽  
Minrui Fei ◽  
Xin Li ◽  
Huiyu Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Support Vector Machine ◽  
Mean Shift ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Svm Classifier ◽  
Least Square Estimation ◽  
Unstructured Environments ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Traditional Approaches ◽  
Improved Support Vector Machine

Features analysis is an important task which can significantly affect the performance of automatic bacteria colony picking. Unstructured environments also affect the automatic colony screening. This paper presents a novel approach for adaptive colony segmentation in unstructured environments by treating the detected peaks of intensity histograms as a morphological feature of images. In order to avoid disturbing peaks, an entropy based mean shift filter is introduced to smooth images as a preprocessing step. The relevance and importance of these features can be determined in an improved support vector machine classifier using unascertained least square estimation. Experimental results show that the proposed unascertained least square support vector machine (ULSSVM) has better recognition accuracy than the other state-of-the-art techniques, and its training process takes less time than most of the traditional approaches presented in this paper.

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