Inspiration
Counting colonies on circular agar plates (little Petri dish-looking plates) for microbiological research is an unfortunately tedious but necessary part of daily lab life. We wanted to automate the process so researchers can spend their time doing more important things :)
What it does
Colony Counter takes an image input (such as a cultured agar plate) and outputs the number of discrete objects on it.
How we built it
The project's backend was built with Django, using OpenCV to detect the colonies. The frontend was built with React.
Challenges we ran into
One of our teammates couldn't access her own laptop so she relied on sending code through Discord (boo)
Accomplishments that we're proud of
It was our first time using Python and Django so we're glad we learned those
What we learned
How and what to use OpenCV for in future projects!
What's next for Colony Counter
Making a mobile app & improving GUI :)
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