A robust method for high-accuracy microbe identification based on image processing

We present a novel fast method based on computer vision to identify microbe The proposed method is simple but absolutely effective It combines approximate parallel light source and industrial camera, to automatically accomplish the bacteria identification and monitor the growing states of bacteria during the progress of a drug sensitive test. Based on this method, the color information and turbidity information, which reflect the primary information of drug sensitive tests, can be obtained fast, while processing efficiency can be as high as hundreds of milliseconds per frame. The performance of our method is significantly accurate and robust.