Biotechnology

Studies conducted at S. Zhao et al on biotechnology recently published

Published in Biotech Business Week, July 5th, 2010

According to recent research from Nanjing, People's Republic of China, "Wing venation characteristics, such as the wing diagram and coordinates of vein junctions, are species-specific and are usually used in studies of insect identification. Image analysis methods are quick and precise means to measure these characteristics."

"An image analysis method is proposed that enables extraction of the wing diagram and automatic identification of vein junctions. A color image of an insect wing is converted to a binary image of wing venation based on thresholding. A distance-to-boundary map of the complement of the binary image is computed using a distance transform function. The...

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Source: Biotech Business Week (2010-07-05)

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