Non-destructive label-free automated identification of bacterial colonies at the species level directly on agar media using digital holography and convolutional neural network algorithms
Prisca Perlemoine, Jordan Belissard, Bruno Burtschell, Nassim Halli, Luc Martin, Camille D. Brunet, Maxime Gougis, Patrick Schiavone, Yvan Caspar
This paper develops a non-destructive, label-free method for identifying bacterial colonies at the species level using digital holography and CNNs, achieving 86.6% accuracy on trained species.
Microbiology Spectrum · Jul 13, 2026Peer-reviewedMicrobiology