Machine learning identification of Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains from colony image data.

When grown on agar surfaces, microbes can produce distinct multicellular spatial structures called colonies, which contain characteristic sizes, shapes, edges, textures, and degrees of opacity and color. For over one hundred years, researchers have used these morphology cues to classify bacteria and...

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Main Authors: Jennifer B Rattray, Ryan J Lowhorn, Ryan Walden, Pedro Márquez-Zacarías, Evgeniya Molotkova, Gabriel Perron, Claudia Solis-Lemus, Daniel Pimentel Alarcon, Sam P Brown
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2023-12-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011699