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AgentCount workflow automates microbial colony counting using LLMs and SAM 3

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Researchers have developed AgentCount, an open-source agentic workflow designed to automate colony counting from agar plate images, a process crucial for food safety and microbiological studies. This workflow utilizes the Segment Anything Model 3 (SAM 3) for colony detection and employs a large language model (LLM) agent to generate narrative interpretations of the results. AgentCount aims to improve efficiency and traceability by retaining intermediate outputs like segmentation masks and quality scores, and has demonstrated high accuracy in retrospective comparisons with previous studies. AI

IMPACT This workflow demonstrates the potential of agentic systems and LLMs for specialized scientific data analysis and interpretation.

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AgentCount workflow automates microbial colony counting using LLMs and SAM 3

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Zhuosheng Liu, Austin E. Weber ·

    AgentCount: An Agentic Workflow for Traceable Colony Counting and Insight Generation from Agar Plate Images

    arXiv:2611.05398v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Colony counting is commonly used to evaluate microbial populations in food safety testing and microbiological studies. Despite its wide application, manual counting is time-consuming and operator-dependent, and the final count oft…

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