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ForaBot: Visual Foram Sorting and Characterization<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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The goal of this project is to develop an automated system for identification and sorting of foraminifera (single-celled organisms with shells). Currently undergraduate workers are often employed to hand pick several thousands of specimens from ocean sediments for each study. This is tedious and time consuming work. By automating the bulk of the identification process, user expertise can be focused on verification and identification of subtle differences.<\/p>\n

A visual system will be developed in order to automate the identification and sorting of target microorganisms. The system will incorporate a controllable LED lighting ring used to capture images by illuminating the specimens from several directions, mimicking an important step in the traditional identification process. Machine learning techniques will be tuned to acceptable recognition rates set by feedback from experts in paleoceanography who will also provide labeled samples for training and validation. The initial proof of concept study will focus on identifying six species of planktonic foraminifera, and their morphotypes, that are widely used by paleoceanographers.<\/p>\n

This work is a collaboration between the ARoS Lab, Dr. Thomas M. Marchitto<\/a> (Associate Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder), Dr. Ritayan Mitra<\/a> (Assistant Professor at IIT Bombay) and Dr. Michael Daniele<\/a> (Associate Professor at NCSU). This work is funded by the NSF under award OCE-1637039 (August 2016 \u2013 July 2019) and OCE-1829930 (January 2019 – December 2021).<\/p>\n

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