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Chapter and Conference Paper
Biodeposition of Diatoms in Recycled Aggregates
This work studies the behaviour of diatoms in artificial culture environments and analyses the biodeposition of diatom frustules in different sizes of mixed recycled aggregates. In order to be able to use this...
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Overview: Antecedents, Motivation and Necessity
This chapter introduces the antecedents, motivation, and necessity of the use of automatic identification methods in diatom taxonomy. Expert biologists have a repetitive and laborious identification mission. T...
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Diatom Taxonomy and Identification Keys
Correct identification of diatom taxa is indispensable for diatom-based water quality studies, as well as for biotechnological applications. Biological applications of taxonomy include the identification of ta...
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Water Quality Assessment
Diatom metrics methods are becoming important tools for the assessment of environmental conditions in aquatic systems. Diatoms have several advantages as bioindicators: their ubiquitous distribution across wor...
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Naturally and Environmentally Driven Variations in Diatom Morphology: Implications for Diatom-Based Assessment of Water Quality
Diatom identification must consider the large variability in both morphological and morphometric features, characteristic of this group of microorganisms. This chapter describes variations in shape/size observ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Deep Learning Versus Classic Methods for Multi-taxon Diatom Segmentation
Diatom identification is a crucial process to estimate water quality, which is essential in biological studies. This process can be automated with machine learning algorithms. For this purpose, a dataset with ...
