Research of the Leukocytes Segmentation Method in the Blood Cells Recognition Systems

Abstract

The paper proposed a method of segmentation of leukocytes from the blood and bone marrow samples. A study of the accuracy characteristics of the method is carried out. The techniques of watersheds and the distances transformation were used as the basis of our segmentation method to achieve optimal segmentation of leukocyte. Proposed method was successfully embedded in the system of automatic recognition of white blood cells for classification of blood cells.


Keywords: white blood cells segmentation, cells recognition, watershed method, distance transformation method, acute leukemia.

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