Annotation Along Arranged Bacteria to Detect Gram Positive Cocci from Gram Stained Smears Images

Gram positive cocci occur as not only singles but also arrangements of pairs, tetorads, chains and clusters in Gram stained smears images. In this paper, we detect Gram positive cocci based on the annotation along singles, which is an annotation along a single bacterium, and the annotation along arrangements, which is an annotation along arranged bacteria. Here, we avoid to the difference of the number of regions obtained by the annotations both decreasing the number of regions by annotation along singles and increasing the number of regions by annotation along arrangements.