Bacteria identification using digital image processing

Durai Anand Thangarajan 1, * and Sivasangari Rajeswaran 2

1 Assistant Professor, Department of Zoology, VHNSN College (Autonomous),Virudhunagar, India.
2 Professor, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Sree Sowdambika College of Engineering, Aruppukottai, India.
 
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International Journal of Science and Research Archive, 2024, 12(02), 818–820.
Article DOI: 10.30574/ijsra.2024.12.2.1268
Publication history: 
Received on 02 June 2024; revised on 14 July 2024; accepted on 17 July 2024
 
Abstract: 
The identification of bacteria is an important and unavoidable task in medical disciplines and nutritional hygiene. But in the field of microbiology, No direct method is available for determination of bacterial species. The common manual technique is the microscopic sample analysis combined with more than 20 biochemical tests to identify the bacterium. These tests are more time consuming processes and required the training person for conducting these tests. To overcome the above problems the digital image processing can be used. The primary objective of the proposed work is to use the digital image processing techniques to identify the bacteria from the microscopic images. In this work the image of bacterial species were captured using a digital camera attached with the transmission electron microscope. After capturing the image, the preprocessing, segmentation and morphological procedures of digital image processing techniques are used to identify the bacterial species.
 
Keywords: 
Bacterial species; Biochemical tests, Electron microscope; Digital image processing; Microscopic images
 
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