Segmentation of white blood cells and comparison of cell morphology by linear and naïve Bayes classifiers

BioMedical Engineering Online

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Prinyakupt, Jaroonrut ^a   Pluempitiwiriyawej, Charnchai ^a  

^a CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Classification; Ellipse curve fitting; Feature extraction; Image segmentation; White blood cell

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; BLOOD; CALIBRATION; CELLS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CURVE FITTING; CYTOLOGY; EXTRACTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; PIXELS;

ELLIPSE CURVE; FEATURE SELECTION AND CLASSIFICATION; GREEDY SEARCH ALGORITHMS; MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS; MORPHOLOGICAL PROPERTIES; PERIPHERAL BLOOD SMEARS; SEQUENTIAL FORWARD SELECTION; WHITE BLOOD CELLS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BASOPHIL; BAYESIAN LEARNING; BLOOD SMEAR; CELL SEGMENTATION; CELL SELECTION; CELL SHAPE; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CLASSIFICATION; CLASSIFIER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EOSINOPHIL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEUKOCYTE; LINEAR CLASSIFIER; LYMPHOCYTE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MEASUREMENT PRECISION; MONOCYTE; NEUTROPHIL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCEDURES CONCERNING CELLS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENTIAL FORWARD SELECTION ALGORITHM; VALIDATION STUDY; BAYES THEOREM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MICROSCOPY; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEUKOCYTES; LINEAR MODELS; MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84933531026     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1475925X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12938-015-0037-1     Document Type: Article

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