RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 Automated Diatom Classification (Part B): A Deep Learning Approach A1 Pedraza, Aníbal A1 Bueno García, María Gloria A1 Déniz Suárez, Óscar A1 Cristóbal Pérez, Gabriel A1 Blanco Lanza, Saúl A1 Borrego Ramos, María A2 Ecologia K1 Biología K1 Biotecnología K1 Ecología. Medio ambiente K1 Convolutional neural networks K1 Deep learning; K1 Classification K1 Segmentation K1 Normalization K1 Image acquisition K1 Diatoms K1 2417.07 Algología (Ficología) K1 2417.20 Taxonomía Vegetal AB [EN] Diatoms, a kind of algae microorganisms with several species, are quite useful for water quality determination, one of the hottest topics in applied biology nowadays. At the same time, deep learning and convolutional neural networks (CNN) are becoming an extensively used technique for image classification in a variety of problems. This paper approaches diatom classification with this technique, in order to demonstrate whether it is suitable for solving the classification problem. An extensive dataset was specifically collected (80 types, 100 samples/type) for this study. The dataset covers different illumination conditions and it was computationally augmented to more than 160,000 samples. After that, CNNs were applied over datasets pre-processed with different image processing techniques. An overall accuracy of 99% is obtained for the 80-class problem and different kinds of images (brightfield, normalized). Results were compared to previous presented classification techniques with different number of samples. As far as the authors know, this is the first time that CNNs are applied to diatom classification PB MDPI LK https://hdl.handle.net/10612/19283 UL https://hdl.handle.net/10612/19283 NO Pedraza, A., Bueno, G., Deniz, O., Cristóbal, G., Blanco, S., & Borrego-Ramos, M. (2017). Automated diatom classification (Part B): a deep learning approach. Applied Sciences, 7(5) Article e460. https://doi.org/10.3390/APP7050460 NO This article belongs to the Special Issue Automated Analysis and Identification of Phytoplankton Images DS BULERIA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de León RD 15-may-2024