Fusion noise-removal technique with modified dark-contrast algorithm for robust segmentation of acute leukemia cell images
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2018-11Author
Nor Hazlyna, Harun
Juhaida, Abu Bakar
Hamirulaini’, Hambali
Nurnadia, Mohd Khair
Mohd. Yusoff, Mashor
Roseline, Hassan
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Segmentation is the major area of interest in the field of image processing stage. In an automatic diagnosis of acute leukemia disease, the crucial process is to achieve the accurate segmentation of acute leukemia blood image. Generally, there are three requirements of image segmentation for medical purposes, namely; accuracy, robustness and effectiveness which
have received considerable critical attention. As such, we propose a new (modified) dark contrast enhancement technique to enhance and automatically segment the acute leukemic cells. Subsequently, we used a fusion 7 × 7 median filter as well as the seeded region growing area extraction (SRGAE) algorithm to minimise the salt-and-pepper noise, apart from preserving the post-segmentation edge. As per the outcomes, the accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity of this method were 91.02%,
83.68%, and 91.57% respectively.