Chapter 1 Overview: Antecedents, Motivation and Necessity

Chapter 2 Diatom Classifications: What Purpose Do They Serve?

Chapter 3 Diatom Taxonomy and Identification Keys

Chapter 4 Naturally and Environmentally Driven Variations in Diatom Morphology: Implications for Diatom-Based Assessment of Water Quality

Chapter 5 Microscopic Modalities and Illumination Techniques

Chapter 6 Light Filtering in Microscopy

Chapter 7 Automatization Techniques. Slide Scanning

Chapter 8 Segmentation Techniques

Chapter 9 Diatom Feature Extraction and Classification

Chapter 10 Multifocus and Multiexposure Techniques

Chapter 11 Stereoscopic Imaging of Diatoms in Light and Electron Microscopy

Chapter 12 Geometric Morphometrics and the Shape of Microscopic Organisms

Chapter 13 Water Quality Assessment

Chapter 14 Diatoms in Forensic Analysis