Counting circular objects such as cell colonies is an important source of information for biologists. Although this task is often time-consuming and subjective, it is still predominantly performed manually. The aim of the present work is to provide a new tool to enumerate circular objects from digital pictures and video streams. Here, I demonstrate that the created program, OpenCFU, is very robust, accurate and fast. In addition, it provides control over the processing parameters and is implemented in an in- tuitive and modern interface. OpenCFU is a cross-platform and open-source software freely available at http://opencfu.sourceforge.net.
@article{arxiv.1210.5502,
title = {OpenCFU, a New Free and Open-Source Software to Count Cell Colonies and Other Circular Objects},
author = {Quentin Geissmann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.5502},
year = {2012}
}