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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: counting items in digitized images
Message-ID: <1211@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 8 May 91 06:12:48 GMT
References: <1991May7.002855.4111@ducvax.auburn.edu> <0k7k22w161w@nstar.rn.com>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
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In article <0k7k22w161w@nstar.rn.com> tbissett@nstar.rn.com (Travis Bissett) writes:
>bwaid@ducvax.auburn.edu writes:
>
>> Does anyone know of a program that will count the number of occurences of 
>> something in a digitized image. Some people at a medical school are trying to
>> count the number of cells in an image on an Amiga. Any help will be
>> appreciated. 
>
>Speaking from my own personal ignorance, I'd be surprised if you find a 
>ready made canned solution to the problem you described. It really is 
>non-trivial -- but then, it's the sort of challenge that many in academia 
>and industry have been working on for a long time.   ....
> It certainly is in the realm of technical 
>possibility to count cells from a microscopic camera picture -- I've yet to 
>hear of a commercial explotation of it, though, which suggests that the 
>problem is still in the experimental/developmental stages. 

You're right, but with the help of the Amiga it really can be done.
One of our German developers does precisely this. We already had him
on some faires with his microscope, attached camera and his software,
it was always a big attraction. But this is a commercial package,
somewhere in the $$$$ range, and I guess the guy wouldn't like very
much to tell the world about his algorithm tricks...

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