Python script to identify and count hair follicles on a shaved scalp

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Recognise and count newly implanted hair follicles

Hi, My parter does hair transplants and I thought it would be good to verify how many follicles were actually transplanted at the end of the surgery. I’m new to computer vision so am wondering if someone could point me in the right direction of an approach that could be used to first recognise the follicles in each image, then count them. My thought was to use edge detection to show each follicle as an approximate circle, then count the circles. I can probably manage preparing the image, redu…