Digital Image Analysis of Microbes

Providing specific knowledge in the theory of image analysis, optics, fluorescence, and imaging devices in biomedical laboratories, this timely and indispensable volume focuses on the theory and applications of detection, morphometry, and motility measurement techniques applied to bacteria, fungi, yeasts and protozoa.Die Entwicklung digitaler Bildverarbeitung, gekoppelt an Mikroskopsysteme, ermöglichte in neuerer Zeit einen zunehmenden Einsatz der Bildanalyse von Mikroben - ein wertvolles Hilfsmittel für das Verständnis der Strukturen, des Verhaltens und der Diversität mikrobieller Populationen. Dieser aktuelle, interdisziplinär angelegte Abriß der digitalen Bildverarbeitung wurde von einem internationalen Team von Mikrobiologen, Biotechnologen und Computerwissenschaftlern verfaßt. (04/98) Partial table of contents:

TECHNICAL BACKGROUND.

An Introduction to Digital Image Processing (J. Roerdink).

Image Detectors for Digital Image Microscopy (L. Van Vliet, et al.).

Optical Systems for Image Analysed Microscopy (M. Wilkinson).

Single and Multiple Spectral Parameter Fluorescence Microscopy (J. Slavik).

SINGLE-CELLED ORGANISMS.

Morphometry of Yeast (M.-N.

Pons & H. Vivier).

Optimized Population Statistics Derived from Morphometry (B. Meijer & M. Wilkinson).

Motility, Chemotaxis and Phototaxis Measurements by Image Analysis (G. Cercignani, et al.).

MULTICELLULAR ORGANISMS AND CONSORTIA.

Quantitative Morphology of Filamentous Micro-Organisms (A. Spohr, et al.).

The Study of Biofilms Using Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy (J. Lawrence, et al.).

Agar Plate Techniques (A. Peters, et al.).

Appendix.

Index.

M. H. F. Wilkinson is the editor of Digital Image Analysis of Microbes: Imaging, Morphometry, Fluorometry and Motility Techniques and Applications, published by Wiley.

F. Schut is the editor of Digital Image Analysis of Microbes: Imaging, Morphometry, Fluorometry and Motility Techniques and Applications, published by Wiley.