Title :
White blood cell detection in bone marrow images
Author :
Sobrevilla, P. ; Montseny, E. ; Keller, J.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Appl. Math. II, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Abstract :
This paper presents an approach to the automatic detection of white blood cells in bone marrow microscopic images. This approach is based on fuzzy techniques with the aim to allow: good processing of both vagueness and indetermination characteristics of this kind of image; and the analysis of monochrome instead of color images. Taking these considerations into account, a very low computational cost algorithm is obtained which produces highly satisfactory results
Keywords :
blood; bone; fuzzy logic; image classification; medical image processing; bone marrow images; computational cost; fuzzy logic; indetermination; microscopic images; monochrome images; pixel classification; vagueness; white blood cell detection; Bones; Cells (biology); Image analysis; Image color analysis; Image segmentation; Microscopy; Performance analysis; Pixel; Red blood cells; White blood cells;
Conference_Titel :
Fuzzy Information Processing Society, 1999. NAFIPS. 18th International Conference of the North American
Conference_Location :
New York, NY
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5211-4
DOI :
10.1109/NAFIPS.1999.781723
