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
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