Title
Automatic working area classification in peripheral blood smears using spatial distribution features across scales
Abstract
Automatic classification of working areas in peripheral blood smears can provide objective and reproducible quality control for the evaluation of smears and smear maker devices. However, it has drawn little research attention. In this paper we study this topic using image analysis and statistical pattern recognition methods. We employ generic features without requiring the extraction of individual cells. Two new spatial distribution features across scales are defined and utilized to classify working areas. We demonstrate that the only feature and method proposed in a similar work by others is insufficient to characterize the goodness of working areas, particularly the cell distribution. However, by utilizing it together with the features developed in this paper, we can achieve much better results. Our method has been tested on about 150 labeled images acquired from three malaria-infected Giemsa-stained blood smears using an oil immersion 100x objective lens.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1109/ICPR.2008.4761743
Tampa, FL
Keywords
Field
DocType
blood,cellular biophysics,medical image processing,pattern classification,statistical analysis,automatic working area classification,cell distribution,image analysis,individual cells extraction,peripheral blood smears,quality control,smear maker devices,smears evaluation,spatial distribution features,statistical pattern recognition
Kernel (linear algebra),Computer vision,Cellular biophysics,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Support vector machine,Oil immersion,Feature extraction,Artificial intelligence,Spatial distribution,Statistical analysis
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1051-4651 E-ISBN : 978-1-4244-2175-6
978-1-4244-2175-6
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
1
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wei Xiong1236.75
Sim Heng Ong242644.63
Joo-Hwee Lim378382.45
N. N. Tung400.34
Jiang Liu529942.50
Daniel Racoceanu619824.30
Kevin Tan7282.82
Alvin Chong800.34
Kelvin Weng Chiong Foong9788.21