BIOF350 Lab 3: Counting Synaptic Vesicles
Due Friday, September 20, by the end of the day
Write a program that will count the number of synaptic vesicles in the image. The count won't be perfect, but essentially, a vesicle is a small number of dark pixels (a little dark spot). Within 10% or so is close enough.
Use any algorithm you please, but I would suggest using flood fill. Any structures with just a few pixels are probably vesicles. First, set up your program to color them differently or something, so that you can see if it is finding the correct structures. A common problem is when a large number of vesicles are close together. An appropriate threshold for "dark" will solve most problems, but will not be perfect.
Use this image to test
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