Applications of Artificial Neural Networks in Microorganism Image Analysis: A Comprehensive Review from Conventional Multilayer Perceptron to Popular Convolutional Neural Network and Potential Visual Transformer. (arXiv:2108.00358v2 [cs.CV] UPDATED)

Microorganisms are widely distributed in the human daily living environment.
They play an essential role in environmental pollution control, disease
prevention and treatment, and food and drug production. The analysis of
microorganisms is the basic step for make full use of different microorganisms.
The conventional analysis methods are laborious and time-consuming. Therefore,
the automatic image analysis based on artificial neural networks is introduced
to optimize it. However, the automatic microorganism image analysis faces many
challenges, such as the requirement of …

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