A novel color image segmentation method and its application to white blood cell image analysis

Author

Wu, JianHua ; Zeng, Pingping ; Zhou, Yuan ; Olivier, Christian

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. Eng., Nanchang Univ.

Volume

2

fYear

2006

fDate

16-20 2006

Abstract

According to the fact that the H component in HSI color space contains most of the white blood cell information, and the S component contains the structure information of the white blood cell nucleus, we develop an iterative Otsu´s approach based on circular histogram for the leukocyte segmentation by taking full advantage of this knowledge. Experimental results show that this method works successfully in the segmentation of color smear microscopic images

Keywords

blood; image colour analysis; image segmentation; medical image processing; H component; S component; circular histogram; color image segmentation method; color smear microscopic images; hue-saturation-intensity space; iterative approach; leukocyte segmentation; structure information; white blood cell image analysis; white blood cell information; white blood cell nucleus; Clustering algorithms; Feature extraction; Histograms; Image color analysis; Image edge detection; Image segmentation; Iterative methods; Microscopy; Silicon carbide; White blood cells;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signal Processing, 2006 8th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9736-3

Electronic_ISBN

0-7803-9736-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICOSP.2006.345700

Filename

4128992