I’d be interested in whatever responses you get. I’ve thought
about using just a standard OCR package for counting small
and mid-sized seeds. More serious might be to sue image
classification (GIS) software such as EDRDAS Imagine.
Anybody tried this?
-Steve Erickson
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> Dear list,
> 
> I am looking for software that will count objects in an image.
A half 
> dozen
> or so years ago, I was working as a sophomore undergrad in a
lab doing
> pollen counting.  We used a digital camera hooked up to a
microscope and
> imported the images into, I think, photoshop.  Then, we used
that
> software to choose a pollen grain image for the software to
search for
> and count.  I think the software put numbers on each object
that it 
> counted,
> so the method was verifiable.  Has anyone used this method,
or did I
> hallucinate the whole experience?  I hope to adapt this
method to
> counting Fusarium colonies on petri plates.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jennifer
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