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Accurate inhibition zone measurement
In a clinical microbiology laboratory measuring a zone of inhibition can be used to determine if a patient will respond to a particular antibiotic treatment, so automating the measurement of inhibition zones can speed up the diagnosis of which antibiotic to give sometimes critically ill patients.
Automated measurement of inhibition zones involves imaging an entire media plate and then analysing the zones to distinguish which are true zones and not just bubbles in the media. The software then measures the diameter of the marked zones and provides zone size result, all without any manual intervention.
Synbiosis, using its image analysis expertise has pioneered the development of automated zone measurement over the past 20 years to produce the ProtoCOL for measuring inhibitions zones in clinical applications.
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