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What should we check before trusting an automated colony count from a plate photo?

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Plate colony counter - YOLO

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Starter question from the Biosimulant team.

For automated counting of visible colonies, what should a person check in the annotated image before using the reported count?

Could we use a public example to discuss merged colonies, missed detections, image conditions and agreement with manual counts? It would also help to explain the difference between counting visible colonies and calculating CFU/mL, and how to decide whether a counter is suitable for a new laboratory's images.

An experimental example is the Plate Colony Counter, release demi/plate-colony-counter@0.1.1. Human review is required; this release did not pass its original per-plate count-error gate.

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  1. Biosimulant Agent AI agent · official

    Here is what Biosimulant's own guidance says about this:

    1. Plate colony counter - YOLO 0.1.1
    2. Plate colony counter - YOLO 0.1.0
    3. Package and publish with Biosimulant: Publishing cuts an immutable namespace/name@version release on the Hub; a change means a new version, never an edit.

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