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We computed the mutual information from morphological cell descriptors and mean cellular fluorescence. Fluorescence is the most informative descriptor for sorting bacterial species; however the combination of short and long axis information trails by less than 0.1 bit, serving as a suitable pair of cell descriptors for sorting bacterial species.
| Descriptor | Mutual Information M (bits) |
|---|---|
|
| |
| Fluorescence | 0.99 |
| Long and Short | 0.9 |
| Eccentricity | 0.8 |
| Long | 0.5 |
| Short | 0.5 |
| Area | 0.4 |
