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Leukocyte's nucleus segmentation using active contour in YCbCr colour space

Sadr, A ; Sharif University of Technology | 2010

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. DOI: 10.1109/IECBES.2010.5742239
  3. Publisher: 2010
  4. Abstract:
  5. Blood cell segmentation is a crucial part of many medical and laboratory procedures such as cell counting and blood cell disorder diagnosis. Among different types of blood cells, white blood cells are the most important clinically, as they suffer greatest from blood disorders. In this paper we propose a method for automatic segmentation of white blood cells nucleus. A distinctive function is used in YCbCr color space to segment the white blood cells nucleus. Next, the sub-images are extracted which contain the whole body of white blood cell nucleus. Then an active contour method is applied to the sub-images extracted from the previous step to accurately segment the cell nucleus boundary. Our analysis conducted on 20 samples, show a great success on segmentation of white blood cells nucleus
  6. Keywords:
  7. Active Contour ; Image segmentation ; White blood cell nucleus ; YCbCr colour space ; Active contour method ; Active contours ; Automatic segmentations ; Blood cells ; Cell counting ; Cell nucleus ; Colour spaces ; Laboratory procedures ; Nucleus segmentation ; Subimages ; White blood cells ; Whole body ; Ycbcr color spaces ; Biomedical engineering ; Blood ; Color ; Cytology ; Image enhancement ; Cells
  8. Source: Proceedings of 2010 IEEE EMBS Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Sciences, IECBES 2010, 30 November 2010 through 2 December 2010, Kuala Lumpur ; 2010 , Pages 257-260 ; 9781424476008 (ISBN)
  9. URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/5742239/?section=abstract