Microorganisms are widely distributed in the human daily living environment. They play an
essential role in environmental pollution control, disease prevention and treatment, and food …

Microorganisms play a vital role in human life. Therefore, microorganism detection is of great
significance to human beings. However, the traditional manual microscopic detection …

In this paper, we propose a novel Low-cost U-Net (LCU-Net) for the Environmental
Microorganism (EM) image segmentation task to assist microbiologists in detecting and …

Cervical cancer is one of the most common and deadliest cancers among women. Despite
that, this cancer is entirely treatable if it is detected at a precancerous stage. Pap smear test …

Tuberculosis and other mycobacteriosis are serious illnesses which control is based on
early diagnosis. A technique commonly used consists of analyzing sputum images for …

Microorganisms play a great role in ecosystem, wastewater treatment, monitoring of
environmental changes, and decomposition of waste materials. However, some of them are …

Background Tuberculosis is an infectious disease that is caused by Mycobacterium
tuberculosis (MTB), which mostly affects the lungs of humans. Bright-field microscopy and …

Screening for tuberculosis (TB) in low-and middle-income countries is centered on the
microscope. We present methods for the automated identification of Mycobacterium …

Worldwide, laboratory technicians tediously read sputum smears for tuberculosis (TB)
diagnosis. We demonstrate proof of principle of an innovative computational algorithm that …

Most of the thresholding procedures involved setting of boundaries based on grey values or
intensities of image pixels. In this paper, the thresholding is to be done based on color …