Automated enumeration and size distribution analysis of Microcystis aeruginosa via fluorescence imaging
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Abstract
Due to climate change, toxic cyanobacteria and algae blooms and the associated exposure risk to humans has become a global issue. As a result, routine monitoring to evaluate cell concentrations is increasingly required to ensure safe water supplies. Current methods for cyanobacteria and algae cells enumeration are time consuming and cost-intensive due to the need for manual labor, which prevents their widespread adoption for routine water monitoring.. Automated enumeration with computer-assisted image analysis has strong potential to become a viable solution for continuous routine monitoring; however, the design of such automated systems is challenging due to: a) poor contrast between the target cells and the background, b) presence of confounding cells and abiotic particles and b) image quality variability depending on factors such as the underlying microscopy system in use and the sample condition. In this study, we introduce a novel integrated imaging-based method for automated enumeration and size distribution of Microcystis aeruginosa, a species of freshwater cyanobacteria that can originate harmful blooms. The target cells were excited using a 546nm light source and the resulting fluorescent imaging signal was acquired. A probabilistic unsupervised classification approach was taken to detect Microcystis cells from the surrounding background based on the fluorescent signal. A Gaussian mixture model was learned from the fluorescent imaging signal. The detected Microcystis cells were then enumerated and statistics regarding their size distribution automatically computed. When compared to the manual enumeration data using an hemacytometer, the developed method achieved higher accuracy using much less time and resources, without cell staining. These preliminary results demonstrate the potential of the proposed method as a powerful and robust tool for water quality monitoring and safe water quality control when used alongside gold standard methods.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it