A robust automatic leukocyte recognition method based on island-...

A leukocyte recognition method for human peripheral blood smear based on island-clustering texture (ICT) is proposed. By analyzing the features of the five typical classes of leukocyte images, a new ICT model is established. Firstly, some feature points are extracted in a gray leukocyte image by mean-shift clustering to be the centers of islands. Secondly, the growing region is employed to create regions of the islands in which the seeds are just these feature points. These islands distribution