Personal Narrative: My Automatic Confluent Cell Quantification Program

For me, while classroom lectures remain incredibly enjoyable, the most genuine excitement about learning appears when I apply my knowledge to assist with a real-world problem. I most recently experienced this during my internship in a Biomedical Engineering lab at the University of Delaware, where I developed an accurate automatic confluent cell quantification program. I eagerly approached the problem, hoping that I could accomplish the task that the lab group entrusted to me. During the first week, I devoured hundreds of pages describing various MATLAB techniques and voraciously watched an abundance of videos, testing methods ranging from watershed transforms to edge detection. Every failed trial only served as an inspiration to push myself