Texture feature based classification on microscopic blood smear for acute lymphoblastic leukemia detection

Abstract This paper presents an effective scheme for classification of the normal white blood cells from the affected cells in a microscopic image. The proposed method initially pre-processes the input images using Y component of the CMYK image and a triangle method of thresholding. Subsequently, it utilizes discrete orthonormal S-transform (DOST) to extract the texture features, and its dimensionality is reduced using linear discriminant analysis. The reduced features are then supplied to the proposed Adaboost algorithm with RF (ADBRF) classifier where the random forest is used as the base classifier. A publicly available dataset, ALL-IDB1 is used to validate the proposed scheme. The simulation results based on the five runs of k-fold stratified cross-validation indicate that the proposed method yields superior accuracy (99.66%) as compared to existing schemes.

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