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An enhanced threshold based technique for white blood cells nuclei automatic segmentation

2012· article· en· W2020093041 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

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Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicDigital Imaging for Blood Diseases
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Calgary
FundersCalgary Laboratory Services
KeywordsSegmentationComputer scienceArtificial intelligenceImage segmentationPattern recognition (psychology)Computer visionMATLABScale-space segmentation

Abstract

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One of the most important clinical examination tests is the blood test. In a clinical laboratory, counting different blood cells is important. Manual microscopic inspection is time-consuming and requires technical knowledge. Therefore, automatic medical diagnosis systems are required to help physicians to diagnose diseases in a fast and yet efficient way. Cell automatic classification has larger interest especially for clinics and laboratories; the most important step in automatic classification success is segmentation. This paper shows an efficient technique for automatic blood cell nuclei segmentation. This technique is relying on enhancing and filtering the gray scale image contrast. False objects are removed utilizing minimum segment size. 365 blood images were used to examine this segmentation technique. Quantitative analysis of the proposed segmentation technique on the blood image set gives 80.6% accuracy. In comparison to other techniques the proposed segmentation technique performance was found to be superior. The five normal white blood cells types were used for evaluation to compare isolated performance. Eosinophil was found to have the lowest segmentation accuracy which is 71.0% and Monocyte was the highest one with 85.9%. The blood images dataset and the source code are published on MATLAB file exchange website for comparison and re-production.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.575
Threshold uncertainty score0.571

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.003
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.012
GPT teacher head0.263
Teacher spread0.251 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

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