%0 Journal Article
%T Use of Self-Organizing Map to Analyze Images of Fungi Colonies Grown from Triticum aestivum Seeds Disinfected by Ozone Treatment
%A Thierry Marique
%A Olivier Allard
%A Martin Spanoghe
%J International Journal of Microbiology
%D 2012
%I Hindawi Publishing Corporation
%R 10.1155/2012/865175
%X We submitted to ozone treatment Triticum aestivum (common wheat) seeds severely contaminated by fungi. Fungi colonies developed when seeds were placed over malt agar medium in Petri dishes; Fusarium sp. and Alternaria sp. were identified. However, conventional colonies counting did not allow a clear assessment of the effect of ozone disinfection. We thus used self-organizing maps (SOMs) to perform an image analysis of colonies surface area that clearly showed a significant disinfection effect on Fusarium sp.
%U http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijmb/2012/865175/