• DocumentCode
    1939594
  • Title

    Blood cell image segmentation using hybrid K-means and median-cut algorithms

  • Author

    Muda, T. Zalizam T ; Salam, Rosalina Abdul

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Multimedia Technol. & Commun., Univ. Utara Malaysia, Sintok, Malaysia
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    25-27 Nov. 2011
  • Firstpage
    237
  • Lastpage
    243
  • Abstract
    In blood cell image analysis, segmentation is crucial step in quantitative cytophotometry. Blood cell images have become particularly useful in medical diagnostics tools for cases involving blood. In this paper, we present a better approach on merging segmentation algorithms of K-means and Median-cut for colour blood cells images. Median-cut technique will be employed after comparing best outcomes from Fuzzy c-means, K-means and Means-shift. We used blood cell images infected with malaria parasites as cell images for our research. The result of proposed method shows better improvement in terms of object segmentations for further feature extraction process.
  • Keywords
    blood; cellular biophysics; diseases; feature extraction; fuzzy set theory; image colour analysis; image segmentation; medical image processing; pattern clustering; unsupervised learning; blood cell image analysis; colour blood cell image segmentation algorithm; feature extraction process; hybrid K-means algorithms; malaria parasites; median-cut algorithms; medical diagnostics tools; object segmentations; quantitative cytophotometry; Blood; Clustering algorithms; Image color analysis; Image edge detection; Image segmentation; Kernel; Microscopy; Blood Cell Images; Fuzzy c-means; K-means; Means-shift; Median-cut; Segmentation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Control System, Computing and Engineering (ICCSCE), 2011 IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Penang
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1640-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICCSCE.2011.6190529
  • Filename
    6190529