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Brazilian Society of Chemical Engineering, Brazilian Journal of Chemical Engineering, 1(18), p. 103-111, 2001

DOI: 10.1590/s0104-66322001000100009

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The study of protozoa population in wastewater treatment plants by image analysis

Journal article published in 2001 by Vivier,H, M. da Motta, M. Da Motta, Motta,M da, M. N. Pons, Pons,M N., H. Vivier, A. L. Amaral, Amaral,A L., E. C. Ferreira ORCID, Ferreira,E C., N. Roche, Roche,N, M. Mota, Mota,M
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Abstract

Protozoa are important micro-organisms taking part to the ecosystem balance in wastewater treatment plants. A procedure for their semi-automated identification and counting based on image analysis is proposed. The main difficulty is the segmentation of the protozoa as most of them are in contact with the sludge. The protozoa are characterized by the size of their silhouette (area and length) and three shape factors (elongation, circularity and eccentricity). The identification is performed after projecting the resulting 5D space into a 3D space of Principal Components. The rate of automated identification is actually higher than 50% for some of the species found commonly in activated sludge.