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JACIII Vol.16 No.1 pp. 76-86
doi: 10.20965/jaciii.2012.p0076
(2012)

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Interest-Based Ordering for Fuzzy Morphology on White Blood Cell Image Segmentation

Chastine Fatichah*,**, Martin Leonard Tangel*,
Muhammad Rahmat Widyanto***, Fangyan Dong*,
and Kaoru Hirota*

*Dept. Computational Intelligence & Systems Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, G3-49, 4259 Nagatsuta, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8502, Japan

**Informatics Department, Faculty of Technology Information, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember, Kampus ITS Surabaya 60111 Indonesia

***Faculty of Computer Science, University of Indonesia, Kampus UI Depok, Jawa Barat, Indonesia

Received:
July 4, 2011
Accepted:
October 12, 2011
Published:
January 20, 2012
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Keywords:
binary morphology, fuzzy morphology, white-blood-cell image, image segmentation, color ordering scheme
Abstract
An Interest-based Ordering Scheme (IOS) for fuzzy morphology on White-Blood-Cell (WBC) image segmentation is proposed to improve accuracy of segmentation. The proposed method shows a high accuracy in segmenting both high- and low-density nuclei. Further, its running time is low, so it can be used for real applications. To evaluate the performance of the proposed method, 100 WBC images and 10 leukemia images are used, and the experimental results show that the proposed IOS segments a nucleus in WBC images 3.99% more accurately on average than the Lexicographical Ordering Scheme (LOS) does and 5.29% more accurately on average than the combined Fuzzy Clustering and Binary Morphology (FCBM) method does. The proposal method segments a cytoplasm 20.72% more accurately on average than the FCBM method. The WBC image segmentation is a part of WBC classification in an automatic cancer-diagnosis application that is being developed. In addition, the proposed method can be used to segment any images that focus on the important color of an object of interest.
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C. Fatichah, M. Tangel, M. Widyanto, F. Dong, and K. Hirota, “Interest-Based Ordering for Fuzzy Morphology on White Blood Cell Image Segmentation,” J. Adv. Comput. Intell. Intell. Inform., Vol.16 No.1, pp. 76-86, 2012.
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