Semi-automated identification of white blood cell using active contour technique

• Main Authors: Che Marzuki, Nurhanis Izzati, Mahmood, Nasrul Humaimi, Abdul Razak, Mohd. Azhar
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: QD Chemistry
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/59469/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4915827
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

Manual and automated diagnosis can be used to identify the morphology of blood cells. However, the manual diagnosis of the blood cells is time consuming and need hematologist and pathologist experts in order to diagnose diseases. Recently, the automated diagnosis which is require image processing technique are often been used in this area. This paper focuses on image processing technique to do segmentation on the nucleus of white blood cells (WBC). To identify the nucleus region, there are several image processing techniques applied besides the active contour method. The results obtained show that the detection on the edge of the nucleus is almost same as the original image of the nucleus.