Multi-feature-based approach for white blood cells segmentation and classification in peripheral blood and bone marrow images Online publication date: Mon, 22-Mar-2021
by Mohammed Lamine Benomar; Amine Chikh; Xavier Descombes; Mourtada Benazzouz
International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology (IJBET), Vol. 35, No. 3, 2021
Abstract: In this paper, we propose a complete automated framework for white blood cells differential count in peripheral blood and bone marrow images, in order to reduce the analysis time and increase the accuracy of several blood disorders diagnosis. A new colour transformation is first proposed to highlight the white blood cells regions. Then, a marker controlled watershed algorithm is used to segment the region of interest. The nucleus and cytoplasm are subsequently separated. In the identification step, a set of colour, texture and morphological features are extracted from both nucleus and cytoplasm regions. Next, the performances of a random forest classifier on a set of microscopic images are compared and evaluated. The obtained results reveal high recognition accuracies for both segmentation and classification stage.
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