NIH Image should have no problem with this.
Just convert to grayscale, and then use threshold to convert
to a 1bit image, and use the count particles command.
Karthi Ramachandran (karthi at deakin.edu.au) wrote:
: Hi everyone,
: We are doing some genetics experiments that requirs counting colonies on 100s
: of plates each time. We have the facility for capturing images of these plates
: and storing them digitally. I am wondering if there are any software
: commercial/ shareware/ freeware that will count the colonies from these
: images?
: Any pointers will be greatly appreciated
: Thanx very much
: Karthi. R
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