Karyotype
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Application of Computer Vision Algorithms in the Description of Mitotic Chromosome Metaphase Spread
Abstract: Mitotic chromosomes offer a unique opportunity to observe the nuclear genome by microscope, allowing analysis of its components individually. The karyotype is the visual description of the complete set of chromosomes of a typical somatic cell of a eukaryotic organism. These unique visual features that describe the karyotype are not easily distinguished in photographed microscopic images, most especially in laboratories located in the third world countries that cannot afford to …
Published in Research & Reviews: A Journal of Embedded System & Applications · Vol. 3, Issue 1, 2015 · pp. 1–5 Read article