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An application to count bacterial colonies and other circular objects
OpenCFU is a completely open source lightweight application designed to enumerate clustered circular objects such as bacterial colonies. It can handle digital pictures as well as livestream from a video device/webcam. OpenCFU is cross-platform, fast, reliable and allows the user to implement intuitive filters.
Additional information is provided on the website: http://opencfu.sourceforge.net/
OpenCFU is published on PLoS ONE:
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0054072
Analyze 7.5 (img/hdr) files are used by many medical imaging packages for data export. This small script converts these Analyze 7.5 image files to comma delimited text files, which are suitable for down stream applications.