Chasing Mycobacteria
Virginie Uhlmann, EPFL STI LIB

Meeting • 10 April 2017

Abstract
Once upon a time, a bachelor student started working on the problem of automating the analysis of time lapse sequences of mycobacteria as a summer job. Seven years, million lines of code and several sleepless nights later, two final-year PhD students are seriously planning a celebration party as the first results are getting out. To properly segment and track the bugs, a gigantic pipeline mixing image processing, graph theory, integer programming and machine learning will have been required. This talk recounts the story of this epic chase.