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Article Dans Une Revue Limnology and Oceanography : methods Année : 2022

Correcting estimations of copepod volume from 2-dimensional images

Cédric Dubois
Eric Debreuve

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Accurate plankton biomass estimations are essential to study marine ecological processes and biogeochemical cycles. This is particularly truefor copepods, which dominate mesozooplankton. Such estimations can efficiently be computed from organism volume estimated from images.However, imaging devices only provide 2D projections of 3D objects. The classical procedures to retrieve volumes, based on the Equivalent Spherical Diameter (ESD) or the best-fitting ellipse, are biased. Here, we present a method to correct these biases. First a new method aims to measure body area and fit an ellipse. Then, the body of copepods is modeled as an ellipsoid whose 2D silhouette is mathematically derived. Samples of copepod bodies are simulated with realistic shapes/sizes and random orientations. Their total volume is estimated from their silhouettes using the two classical methods and a correction factor is computed, relative to the known, total, volume. On real data, individual orientations and volumes are unknown but the correction factor still holds for the total volume of a large number of organisms. The correction is around -20% for the ESD method and +10% for the ellipse method. When applied to a database of ∼ 150 000 images of copepods captured by the Underwater Vision Profiler, the corrections decreased the gap between the two methods by a factor of 54. Additionally, the same procedure is used to evaluate the consequence of the bias in theestimation of individual volumes on the slopes of Normalised Biovolume Size Spectra and show that they are, fortunately, not sensitive to the bias.
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hal-03698136 , version 1 (26-11-2021)
hal-03698136 , version 2 (24-06-2022)

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Cédric Dubois, Jean Olivier Irisson, Eric Debreuve. Correcting estimations of copepod volume from 2-dimensional images. Limnology and Oceanography : methods, 2022, 20 (6), pp.361-371. ⟨10.1002/lom3.10492⟩. ⟨hal-03698136v2⟩
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