A computer assisted method for leukocyte nucleus segmentation and recognition in blood smear images

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 85, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2104-2118

  Huang, Der Chen ^a   Hung, Kun Ding ^a   Chan, Yung Kuan ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Genetic algorithm; Gray level co occurrence matrix; Leukocyte differential count; Leukocyte recognition; Leukocyte segmentation; PCA; Principle component analysis

Indexed keywords

GRAY LEVEL CO-OCCURRENCE MATRIX; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; LEUKOCYTE RECOGNITION; PCA; PRINCIPLE COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

BLOOD; DIAGNOSIS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84863110281     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2012.04.012     Document Type: Conference Paper

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