An automated white blood cell nucleus localization and segmentation using image arithmetic and automatic threshold

Journal of Applied Sciences

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 959-966

  Madhloom, Hayan T ^a   Kareem, S A ^a   Ariffin, H ^a   Zaidan, A A ^a   Alanazi, H O ^a   Zaidan, B B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Automatic cell segmentation; Differential blood count; Image analysis; Leukemia diagnosis; Segmentation evaluation

Indexed keywords

ARITHMETIC OPERATIONS; AUTOMATIC IMAGE SEGMENTATION; AUTOMATIC THRESHOLD; BLOOD SMEARS; CELL SEGMENTATION; CONTRAST STRETCHING; DIFFERENTIAL BLOOD COUNT; GLOBAL THRESHOLD; IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; INSPECTION PROCEDURES; LABORATORY TEST; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS; SEGMENTATION EVALUATION; WHITE BLOOD CELLS; WHOLE CELL;

BLOOD; CELLS; DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 79951731170     PISSN: 18125654     EISSN: 18125662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/jas.2010.959.966     Document Type: Article

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