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Blood cell segmentation from microscopic blood images


Abstract:

Blood cell segmentation is a critical innovation for automatic differential blood counting, classification and analysis in clinical examination. In color blood cell image...Show More

Abstract:

Blood cell segmentation is a critical innovation for automatic differential blood counting, classification and analysis in clinical examination. In color blood cell images segmentation and recognition are two essential issues in the field of biomedical cell morphology. This paper approaches methods to segment the blood cells from microscopic thin blood images. This data is the premise to perform higher level tasks for example, automatic differential blood counting, detection of different diseases such as Malaria, Babesia, Chagas disease, Anemia, Leukemia etc. A noteworthy necessity of an automated, real-time, computer vision-based cell segmentation system is an efficient method for segmenting different blood component such as Red Blood Cells (RBCs), White Blood Cells (WBCs), Platelets from input images for blood count as well as to detect the parasites present in blood cells. Input images are captured by connecting digital camera to microscope. Captured images are enhanced and segmented using K-mean clustering as well as global threshold. Overlapping cells are separated using Sobel edge detector and Watershed transform.
Date of Conference: 16-19 December 2015
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 13 June 2016
Electronic ISBN:978-1-4673-7758-4
Conference Location: Pune, India

I. Introduction

There are progressive advancements in medical imaging technology in the course of the most recent decades. It is the most significant advance in computational techniques in almost every field of image processing that outcome in the improvement in medical image. Image segmentation and pattern recognition technologies assume an essential part in computer-aided diagnosis, and have discovered a great deal of clinical applications. For differential blood count, accurate counting of number of Red Blood Cells (RBCs) or White blood Cells (WBCs) is a vital step [4]. In disease detection count and morphology of blood component is considered. Cell segmentation is a popular topic in biomedical image analysis. To check number of cells, cells ought to be segmented from data picture. Segmentation is the separation of image region of interest from the background. After cell segmentation blood components are analyzed. Study the properties of certain cells is necessary for detection of disease. Stained thin blood slides are utilized for image acquisition because it colorizes RBCs and stains WBCs and parasites if it present inside the blood cell. Images are captured by connecting high resolution camera to the microscope. Captured images are preprocessed for noise reduction and enhancement purpose [7].

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