Figure 3

Colonyzer lighting correction & thresholding. Colonyzer detects cultures with low cell density in liquid-inoculated spots in 384 format. A) Original captured plate image from S&P Robotics [4] BM3-SC, B) Image after lighting correction, C) Thresholded image without prior lighting correction, D) Thresholded image with prior lighting correction. Coloured squares around cultures are tile locations as estimated by Colonyzer. In panels C) & D), white pixels are those classified as being cell cultures, black pixels are classified as being agar. Pixel misclassification on some non-experimental edge colonies in panel D) are artefacts caused by light reflecting from plate walls onto the agar. Colonyzer largely (but not completely) corrects for these artefacts when they occur.