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StomataCounter: a neural network for automatic stomata identification and counting

by Karl C. Fetter, Sven Eberhardt, Rich S. Barclay, Scott Wing, and Stephen R. Keller

Posted: May 21, 2018
Server: bioRxiv
DOI: 10.1101/327494

Stomata regulate important physiological processes in plants and are often phenotyped by researchers in diverse fields of plant biology. Currently, there are no user friendly, fully-automated methods to perform the task of identifying and counting stomata, and stomata density is generally estimated by manually counting stomata.
We introduce StomataCounter, an automated stomata counting system using a deep convolutional neural network to identify stomata in a variety of different microscopic images. We use a human-in-the-loop approach to train and refine a neural network on a taxonomically diverse collection of microscopic images.
Our network achieves 98.1% identification accuracy on Ginkgo SEM micrographs, and 94.2% transfer accuracy when tested on untrained species.
To facilitate adoption of the method, we provide the method in a publicly available website at http://www.stomata.science/.

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