White Blood Cells Classifications by SURF Image Matching, PCA and Dendrogram

Nazlıbilek, Sedat; Ertürk, Korhan Levent; Şengül, Gökhan; Aliew, Fuad; Ercan, Tuncay

White Blood Cells Classifications by SURF Image Matching, PCA and Dendrogram

Date

2015

Authors

Nazlıbilek, Sedat

Ertürk, Korhan Levent

Şengül, Gökhan

Aliew, Fuad

Ercan, Tuncay

Aliew, Fuad

Publisher

Allied Acad

Organizational Units

Organizational Unit

Department of Mechatronics Engineering

Our purpose in the program is to educate our students for contributing to universal knowledge by doing research on contemporary mechatronics engineering problems and provide them with design, production and publication skills. To reach this goal our post graduate students are offered courses in various areas of mechatronics engineering, encouraged to do research to develop their expertise and their creative side, as well as develop analysis and design skills.

Organizational Unit

Information Systems Engineering

Information Systems is an academic and professional discipline which follows data collection, utilization, storage, distribution, processing and management processes and modern technologies used in this field. Our department implements a pioneering and innovative education program that aims to raise the manpower, able to meet the changing and developing needs and expectations of our country and the world. Our courses on current information technologies especially stand out.

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Computer Engineering

(1998)

The Atılım University Department of Computer Engineering was founded in 1998. The department curriculum is prepared in a way that meets the demands for knowledge and skills after graduation, and is subject to periodical reviews and updates in line with international standards. Our Department offers education in many fields of expertise, such as software development, hardware systems, data structures, computer networks, artificial intelligence, machine learning, image processing, natural language processing, object based design, information security, and cloud computing. The education offered by our department is based on practical approaches, with modern laboratories, projects and internship programs. The undergraduate program at our department was accredited in 2014 by the Association of Evaluation and Accreditation of Engineering Programs (MÜDEK) and was granted the label EUR-ACE, valid through Europe. In addition to the undergraduate program, our department offers thesis or non-thesis graduate degree programs (MS).

Abstract

Determination and classification of white blood cells are very important for diagnosing many diseases. The number of white blood cells and morphological changes or blasts of them provide valuable information for the positive results of the diseases such as Acute Lymphocytic Leucomia (ALL). Recognition and classification of white cells as basophils, lymphocytes, neutrophils, monocytes and eosinophils also give additional information for the diagnosis of many diseases. We are developing an automatic process for counting, size determination and classification of white blood cells. In this paper, we give the results of the classification process for which we experienced a study with hundreds of images of white blood cells. This process will help to diagnose especially ALL disease in a fast and automatic way. Three methods are used for classification of five types of white blood cells. The first one is a new algorithm utilizing image matching for classification that is called the Speed-Up Robust Feature detector (SURF). The second one is the PCA that gives the advantage of dimension reduction. The third is the classification tree called dendrogram following the PCA. Satisfactory results are obtained by two techniques.