RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Automatic classification of diatoms of Merja fouarate JF bioRxiv FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory SP 099135 DO 10.1101/099135 A1 Nouzha Chahboune A1 Mohamed Mehdi A1 Allal Douira YR 2017 UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/01/09/099135.abstract AB Objective: This work consists of developing an automatic method of form analysis and classification of diatoms through processing of scanned images. The fundamental objective is to determine to what extent two diatoms are similar from the images stored in a database, and to conclude to what classes they belong. To do so, a comparison is made between a manual identification and an automatic identification, based on the ultimate points and the Freeman Chain Code.