Cell counting is a required procedure in biomedical experiments and drug testing. Manual cell counting performed with a hemocytometer is time consuming and individual dependence. This study reportedthe development of a computer-assisted program for trypan blue stained-cell counting using digital image analysis. Images of trypan blue-stained breast cancer cells line were obtained by a microscope with a digital camera. Undesired noise and debris were removed by applying a guided image filter. Color space HSV (Hue, Saturation and Value)conversion and grayscale conversion were performed for distinguishing between live and dead cells. Image thresholding and morphological operators were applied for image segmentation. Live and dead cells were counted after image segmentation and the results were compared with manual counting by three well-experienced counters. The computer-assisted cell counting from thirty-six trypan blue-stained microscopic images had a high correlation coefficient with the live cell results of the experts (r=0.99). The correlation coefficient of the number of dead cells comparing the computer-assisted count and the experts’ count was 0.74. Our approach offers high accuracy (>85%)on counting live cells compared with the experts’ counting. This automated cell counting approach can assist biomedical researchers for both live and dead cells counting.
BFO – AIS: A FRAME WORK FOR MEDICAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION USING SOFT COMPUTING...ijsc
Medical images provide diagnostic evidence/information about anatomical pathology. The growth in
database is enormous as medical digital image equipment’s like Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI),
Computed Tomography (CT), and Positron Emission Tomography CT (PET-CT) are part of clinical work.
CT images distinguish various tissues according to gray levels to help medical diagnosis. Ct is more
reliable for early tumours and haemorrhages detection as it provides anatomical information to plan radio
therapy. Medical information systems goals are to deliver information to right persons at the right time and
place to improve care process quality and efficiency. This paper proposes an Artificial Immune System
(AIS) classifier and proposed feature selection based on hybrid Bacterial Foraging Optimization (BFO)
with Local Search (LS) for medical image classification.
Preprocessing Techniques for Image Mining on Biopsy ImagesIJERA Editor
Biomedical imaging has been undergoing rapid technological advancements over the last several decades and has seen the development of many new applications. A single Image can give all the details about an organ from the cellular level to the whole-organ level. Biomedical imaging is becoming increasingly important as an approach to synthesize, extract and translate useful information from large multidimensional databases accumulated in research frontiers such as functional genomics, proteomics, and functional imaging. To fulfill this approach Image Mining can be used. Image Mining will bridge this gap to extract and translate semantically meaningful information from biomedical images and apply it for testing and detecting any anomaly in the target organ. The essential component in image mining is identifying similar objects in different images and finding correlations in them. Integration of Image Mining and Biomedical field can result in many real world applications
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology.
An algorithm for detection of tuberculosis bacilli in Ziehl-Neelsen sputum sm...IJECEIAES
This work proposes an algorithm oriented to the detection of tuberculosis bacilli in digital images of sputum samples, inked with the Ziehl Neelsen method and prepared with the direct, pellet and diluted pellet methods. The algorithm aims at automating the optical analysis of bacilli count and the calculation of the concentration level. Several algorithms have been proposed in the literature with the same objective, however, in no case is the performance in sensitivity and specificity evaluated for the 3 preparation methods. The proposed algorithm improves the contrast of the colors of interest, then thresholds the image and segments by labeling the objects of interest (bacilli). Each object then has its geometrical descriptors and photometric descriptors. With all this, a characteristic vector is formed, which are used in the training and classification process of an SVM. For the training 225 images obtained by the 3 preparation methods were used. The proposed algorithm reached, for the direct method, a sensitivity level of 93.67% and a specificity level of 89.23%. In the case of the Pellet method, a sensitivity of 92.13% and a specificity of 82.58% was obtained, while for diluted Pellet the sensitivity was 92.81% and the specificity 83.61%.
Filter technique of medical image on multiple morphological gradient methodTELKOMNIKA JOURNAL
Filter technique is supportive for reducing image noise. This paper presents a study on filtering medical images, i.e., CT-Scan, Chest X-ray and Panoramic X-ray collected from two of the most prominent public hospitals in Padang City, Indonesia. The aim of this study preserved to facilitate in diagnosing objects in x-ray medical images. This study used filter technique, i.e. Blur, Emboss, Gaussian, Laplacian, Roberts, Sharpen, or Sobel techniques as pre-processing step. The filter process performed before edge detection and edge clarification. MMG method used in this study to clarify the edge detection. Thus, this research showed the hesitation decline (confidence increase) of the diagnosis of objects contained in medical images.
A Review on Brain Disorder Segmentation in MR ImagesIJMER
International Journal of Modern Engineering Research (IJMER) is Peer reviewed, online Journal. It serves as an international archival forum of scholarly research related to engineering and science education.
International Journal of Modern Engineering Research (IJMER) covers all the fields of engineering and science: Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Agricultural Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Thermodynamics, Structural Engineering, Control Engineering, Robotics, Mechatronics, Fluid Mechanics, Nanotechnology, Simulators, Web-based Learning, Remote Laboratories, Engineering Design Methods, Education Research, Students' Satisfaction and Motivation, Global Projects, and Assessment…. And many more.
BFO – AIS: A FRAME WORK FOR MEDICAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION USING SOFT COMPUTING...ijsc
Medical images provide diagnostic evidence/information about anatomical pathology. The growth in
database is enormous as medical digital image equipment’s like Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI),
Computed Tomography (CT), and Positron Emission Tomography CT (PET-CT) are part of clinical work.
CT images distinguish various tissues according to gray levels to help medical diagnosis. Ct is more
reliable for early tumours and haemorrhages detection as it provides anatomical information to plan radio
therapy. Medical information systems goals are to deliver information to right persons at the right time and
place to improve care process quality and efficiency. This paper proposes an Artificial Immune System
(AIS) classifier and proposed feature selection based on hybrid Bacterial Foraging Optimization (BFO)
with Local Search (LS) for medical image classification.
Preprocessing Techniques for Image Mining on Biopsy ImagesIJERA Editor
Biomedical imaging has been undergoing rapid technological advancements over the last several decades and has seen the development of many new applications. A single Image can give all the details about an organ from the cellular level to the whole-organ level. Biomedical imaging is becoming increasingly important as an approach to synthesize, extract and translate useful information from large multidimensional databases accumulated in research frontiers such as functional genomics, proteomics, and functional imaging. To fulfill this approach Image Mining can be used. Image Mining will bridge this gap to extract and translate semantically meaningful information from biomedical images and apply it for testing and detecting any anomaly in the target organ. The essential component in image mining is identifying similar objects in different images and finding correlations in them. Integration of Image Mining and Biomedical field can result in many real world applications
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology.
An algorithm for detection of tuberculosis bacilli in Ziehl-Neelsen sputum sm...IJECEIAES
This work proposes an algorithm oriented to the detection of tuberculosis bacilli in digital images of sputum samples, inked with the Ziehl Neelsen method and prepared with the direct, pellet and diluted pellet methods. The algorithm aims at automating the optical analysis of bacilli count and the calculation of the concentration level. Several algorithms have been proposed in the literature with the same objective, however, in no case is the performance in sensitivity and specificity evaluated for the 3 preparation methods. The proposed algorithm improves the contrast of the colors of interest, then thresholds the image and segments by labeling the objects of interest (bacilli). Each object then has its geometrical descriptors and photometric descriptors. With all this, a characteristic vector is formed, which are used in the training and classification process of an SVM. For the training 225 images obtained by the 3 preparation methods were used. The proposed algorithm reached, for the direct method, a sensitivity level of 93.67% and a specificity level of 89.23%. In the case of the Pellet method, a sensitivity of 92.13% and a specificity of 82.58% was obtained, while for diluted Pellet the sensitivity was 92.81% and the specificity 83.61%.
Filter technique of medical image on multiple morphological gradient methodTELKOMNIKA JOURNAL
Filter technique is supportive for reducing image noise. This paper presents a study on filtering medical images, i.e., CT-Scan, Chest X-ray and Panoramic X-ray collected from two of the most prominent public hospitals in Padang City, Indonesia. The aim of this study preserved to facilitate in diagnosing objects in x-ray medical images. This study used filter technique, i.e. Blur, Emboss, Gaussian, Laplacian, Roberts, Sharpen, or Sobel techniques as pre-processing step. The filter process performed before edge detection and edge clarification. MMG method used in this study to clarify the edge detection. Thus, this research showed the hesitation decline (confidence increase) of the diagnosis of objects contained in medical images.
A Review on Brain Disorder Segmentation in MR ImagesIJMER
International Journal of Modern Engineering Research (IJMER) is Peer reviewed, online Journal. It serves as an international archival forum of scholarly research related to engineering and science education.
International Journal of Modern Engineering Research (IJMER) covers all the fields of engineering and science: Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Agricultural Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Thermodynamics, Structural Engineering, Control Engineering, Robotics, Mechatronics, Fluid Mechanics, Nanotechnology, Simulators, Web-based Learning, Remote Laboratories, Engineering Design Methods, Education Research, Students' Satisfaction and Motivation, Global Projects, and Assessment…. And many more.
Brain tumor detection and segmentation using watershed segmentation and morph...eSAT Publishing House
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
Brain tumor classification using artificial neural network on mri imageseSAT Journals
Abstract
In this paper, an attempt has been made to summarize the multi-resolution transformation and the different classifiers useful to
analyze the brain tumor using MRI. X-ray, MRI, Ultrasound etc. are different techniques used to scan brain tumor images.
Radiologist prefers MRI to get detail information about tumor to help him diagnoses. In this paper we have used MRI of brain
tumor for analysis. We have used Digital image processing tool for detection of the tumor. The identification, detection and
classification of brain tumor have been done by extracting features from MRI with the help of wavelet transformation. The MRI of
brain tumor is classified into two categories normal and abnormal brain. In this work Digital image processing has been used as
a tool for getting clear and exact details about tumor in earlier stages. This helps the physicians and practitioners for diagnoses.
Key word – Brain tumor, Wavelet transform, segmentation.
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
Brain tumor detection and segmentation using watershed segmentation and morph...eSAT Journals
Abstract In the field of medical image processing, detection of brain tumor from magnetic resonance image (MRI) brain scan has become one of the most active research. Detection of the tumor is the main objective of the system. Detection plays a critical role in biomedical imaging. In this paper, MRI brain image is used to tumor detection process. This system includes test the brain image process, image filtering, skull stripping, segmentation, morphological operation, calculation of the tumor area and determination of the tumor location. In this system, morphological operation of erosion algorithm is applied to detect the tumor. The detailed procedures are implemented using MATLAB. The proposed method extracts the tumor region accurately from the MRI brain image. The experimental results indicate that the proposed method efficiently detected the tumor region from the brain image. And then, the equation of the tumor region in this system is effectively applied in any shape of the tumor region. Key Words: Magnetic resonance image, skull stripping, segmentation, morphological operation, detection
Automatic Diagnosis of Abnormal Tumor Region from Brain Computed Tomography I...ijcseit
The research work presented in this paper is to achieve the tissue classification and automatically
diagnosis the abnormal tumor region present in Computed Tomography (CT) images using the wavelet
based statistical texture analysis method. Comparative studies of texture analysis method are performed
for the proposed wavelet based texture analysis method and Spatial Gray Level Dependence Method
(SGLDM). Our proposed system consists of four phases i) Discrete Wavelet Decomposition (ii)
Feature extraction (iii) Feature selection (iv) Analysis of extracted texture features by classifier. A
wavelet based statistical texture feature set is derived from normal and tumor regions. Genetic Algorithm
(GA) is used to select the optimal texture features from the set of extracted texture features. We construct
the Support Vector Machine (SVM) based classifier and evaluate the performance of classifier by
comparing the classification results of the SVM based classifier with the Back Propagation Neural network
classifier(BPN). The results of Support Vector Machine (SVM), BPN classifiers for the texture analysis
methods are evaluated using Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) analysis. Experimental results
show that the classification accuracy of SVM is 96% for 10 fold cross validation method. The system
has been tested with a number of real Computed Tomography brain images and has achieved satisfactory
results.
Evaluation of image segmentation and filtering with ann in the papaya leafijcsit
Precision agriculture is area with lack of cheap technology. The refinement of the production system brings
large advantages to the producer and the use of images makes the monitoring a more cheap methodology.
Macronutrients monitoring can to determine the health and vulnerability of the plant in specific stages. In
this paper is analyzed the method based on computational intelligence to work with image segmentation in
the identification of symptoms of plant nutrient deficiency. Artificial neural networks are evaluated for
image segmentation and filtering, several variations of parameters and insertion impulsive noise were
evaluated too. Satisfactory results are achieved with artificial neural for segmentation same with high
noise levels.
International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) is an open access online peer reviewed international journal that publishes research and review articles in the fields of Computer Science, Neural Networks, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Plastic Engineering, Food Technology, Textile Engineering, Nano Technology & science, Power Electronics, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Computational mathematics, Image processing, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, VLSI Testing & Low Power VLSI Design etc.
Early Detection of Lung Cancer Using Neural Network TechniquesIJERA Editor
Effective identification of lung cancer at an initial stage is an important and crucial aspect of image processing. Several data mining methods have been used to detect lung cancer at early stage. In this paper, an approach has been presented which will diagnose lung cancer at an initial stage using CT scan images which are in Dicom (DCM) format. One of the key challenges is to remove white Gaussian noise from the CT scan image, which is done using non local mean filter and to segment the lung Otsu’s thresholding is used. The textural and structural features are extracted from the processed image to form feature vector. In this paper, three classifiers namely SVM, ANN, and k-NN are applied for the detection of lung cancer to find the severity of disease (stage I or stage II) and comparison is made with ANN, and k-NN classifier with respect to different quality attributes such as accuracy, sensitivity(recall), precision and specificity. It has been found from results that SVM achieves higher accuracy of 95.12% while ANN achieves 92.68% accuracy on the given data set and k-NN shows least accuracy of 85.37%. SVM algorithm which achieves 95.12% accuracy helps patients to take remedial action on time and reduces mortality rate from this deadly disease.
Feature selection/extraction methods aimed to reduce the Microarray data. Basically in this comparative analysis, we have taken into account different feature selection and extraction strategies used up till now in the field of Biomedical. In the field of pattern recognition and biomedical imaging, dimensionality reduction is the central area of the research. Some mostly used features selection/extraction methods aim to analyze the most efficient data and achieve the stable performance of the algorithms, as well as improve the accuracy and performance of the classifier. This analysis also highlights widely used dimensionality reduction techniques used up till now in the field of biomedical imaging for the purpose to explore their potency, and weak points.
Automatic Detection of Malaria Parasites for Estimating ParasitemiaCSCJournals
Malaria parasitemia is a measurement of the amount of Malaria parasites in the patient's blood and an indicator for the degree of infection. In this paper an automatic technique is proposed for Malaria parasites detection from blood images by extracting red blood cells (RBCs) from blood image and classifying as normal or parasite infected. Manual counting of parasitemia is tedious and time consuming and need experts. Proposed automatic approach is used Otsu thresholding on gray image and green channel of the blood image for cell segmentation, watershed transform is used for separation of touching cells, color and statistical features are extracted from segmented cells and SVM binary classifier is used for classification of normal and parasite infected cells.
Comparison of Feature selection methods for diagnosis of cervical cancer usin...IJERA Editor
Even though a great attention has been given on the cervical cancer diagnosis, it is a tuff task to observe the
pap smear slide through microscope. Image Processing and Machine learning techniques helps the pathologist
to take proper decision. In this paper, we presented the diagnosis method using cervical cell image which is
obtained by Pap smear test. Image segmentation performed by multi-thresholding method and texture and shape
features are extracted related to cervical cancer. Feature selection is achieved using Mutual Information(MI),
Sequential Forward Search (SFS), Sequential Floating Forward Search (SFFS) and Random Subset Feature
Selection(RSFS) methods.
Automatic detection of optic disc and blood vessels from retinal images using...eSAT Journals
Abstract Diabetic retinopathy is the common cause of blindness. This paper presents the mathematical morphology method to detect and eliminate the optic disc (OD) and the blood vessels. Detection of optic disc and the blood vessels are the necessary steps in the detection of diabetic retinopathy because the blood vessels and the optic disc are the normal features of the retinal image. And also, the optic disc and the exudates are the brightest portion of the image. Detection of optic disc and the blood vessels can help the ophthalmologists to detect the diseases earlier and faster. Optic disc and the blood vessels are detected and eliminated by using mathematical morphology methods such as closing, filling, morphological reconstruction and Otsu algorithm. The objective of this paper is to detect the normal features of the image. By using the result, the ophthalmologists can detect the diseases easily. Keywords: Blood vessels, Diabetic retinopathy, mathematical morphology, Otsu algorithm, optic disc (OD)
Brain tumour segmentation based on local independent projection based classif...eSAT Journals
Abstract
Brain tumour detection and segmentation is most important and challenging task in early tumour diagnosis. There are various
segmentation methods available but they are still challenging methods because of its complex characteristics such as ambiguous
boundaries and high diversity. To overcome this problem we are going to implement automatic brain tumour detection and
segmentation method by using local independent projection based classification. In this method we are going to consider tumour
segmentation as a classification problem. In this paper locality is important in calculations of projections. Also local anchor
embedding is used to solve linear projection weights. The softmax regression model is used to improve classification performance.
In this study we used MRI images as training and testing data. Finally the brain tumour is classified into tumour and edema
region. The area of tumour region is calculated in pixels.
Key Words: Brain tumour detection & segmentation, local independent projection based classification, local anchor
embedding and softmax regression.
Blood image analysis to detect malaria using filtering image edges and classi...TELKOMNIKA JOURNAL
Malaria is a most dangerous mosquito borne disease and its infection spread through the infected mosquito. It especially affects the pregnant females and Children less than 5 years age. Malarial species commonly occur in five different shapes, Therefore, to avoid this crucial disease the contemporary researchers have proposed image analysis based solutions to mitigate this death causing disease. In this work, we propose diagnosis algorithm for malaria which is implemented for testing and evaluation in Matlab. We use Filtering and classification along with median filter and SVM classifier. Our proposed method identifies the infected cells from rest of blood images. The Median filtering smoothing technique is used to remove the noise. The feature vectors have been proposed to find out the abnormalities in blood cells. Feature vectors include (Form factor, measurement of roundness, shape, count total number of red cells and parasites). Primary aim of this research is to diagnose malaria by finding out infected cells. However, many techniques and algorithm have been implemented in this field using image processing but accuracy is not up to the point. Our proposed algorithm got more efficient results along with high accuracy as compared to NCC and Fuzzy classifier used by the researchers recently.
A novel algorithm for detection of tuberculosis bacilli in sputum smear fluor...IJECEIAES
This work proposes an algorithm aimed at recognizing and accounting Koch bacilli in digital images of microbiological sputum samples stained with auramine, in order to determine the degree of concentration and the state of the disease (tuberculosis). The algorithm was developed with the main objective of maximizing the sensitivity and specificity of the analysis of microbiological samples (recognition and counting of bacilli) according to each preparation method (direct and diluted pellets) in order to reduce the subjectivity of the visual inspection applied by the specialist at the time of analyzing the samples. The proposed algorithm consists of a background removal, an image improvement stage based on consecutive morphological closing operations, a segmentation stage of objects of interest based on thresholdization and a classification stage based on SVM. Each algorithmic stage was developed taking into account the method of preparation of the sample to be processed, being this aspect the main contribution of the proposed work, since it was possible to achieve very satisfactory results in terms of specificity and sensitivity. In this context, sensitivity levels of 91.24% and 93.79% were obtained. Specificity levels of 90.33% and 94.85% were also achieved for direct and diluted pellet methods respectively.
8 A Cellular Neural Network based system for cell counting in culture of biol...Cristian Randieri PhD
A Cellular Neural Network based system for cell counting in culture of biological cells - Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE International Conference on Control Applications, Trieste (Italy) 1-4 September 1998, Vol. 1, pp. 341-345.
di L. Bertucco, G. Nunnari, C. Randieri
Abstract
Cell counting methods are important tools in molecular biology as well as clinical medicine. It is not always technically possible to measure quantitatively the events of cellular growth and fission. When it can be done, the procedures are neither so simple nor without excessive tedium as to lend themselves practically to the necessary replication of observations with large number of individual cells. In this paper, we describe a CNN based system that uses a CNN simulator for counting cells. The performances of the proposed system are illustrated by a simple cell counting experiment using a Petroff- Hauser based counter system.
An Automated Solution for Extracting and Counting of White Blood Cells in a B...ijtsrd
There are various tools present commercially for automatic counting of Blood Cells. These tools are used for counting and finding the different types of Blood Cells present in the Blood Smear. The count of White Blood Cells is important for detecting various diseases as well as to follow the accurate treatment for the diseases like Anemia, Leukemia, Inflammation, Systemic illness, Allergy and Burn-Induced etc. The White Blood Cell count gives the vital information about the diseases which is used for diagnosing the patients. The old conventional method of counting White Blood Cells under microscope gives an inaccurate and unreliable results depending upon how the laboratory technician works on it. Another method for White Blood Cell counting is done through cell counter machine, which is very expensive and cannot be afforded to remote rural areas, hence to overcome such problems this paper proposes a cost-effective approach, i.e, automated solution using smart phone based solution for extracting and counting of White Blood Cells. Chaya P "An Automated Solution for Extracting and Counting of White Blood Cells in a Blood Smear Images" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-2 , February 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd20293.pdf
Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/engineering/information-technology/20293/an-automated-solution-for-extracting-and-counting-of-white-blood-cells-in-a-blood-smear-images/chaya-p
Brain tumor detection and segmentation using watershed segmentation and morph...eSAT Publishing House
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
Brain tumor classification using artificial neural network on mri imageseSAT Journals
Abstract
In this paper, an attempt has been made to summarize the multi-resolution transformation and the different classifiers useful to
analyze the brain tumor using MRI. X-ray, MRI, Ultrasound etc. are different techniques used to scan brain tumor images.
Radiologist prefers MRI to get detail information about tumor to help him diagnoses. In this paper we have used MRI of brain
tumor for analysis. We have used Digital image processing tool for detection of the tumor. The identification, detection and
classification of brain tumor have been done by extracting features from MRI with the help of wavelet transformation. The MRI of
brain tumor is classified into two categories normal and abnormal brain. In this work Digital image processing has been used as
a tool for getting clear and exact details about tumor in earlier stages. This helps the physicians and practitioners for diagnoses.
Key word – Brain tumor, Wavelet transform, segmentation.
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
Brain tumor detection and segmentation using watershed segmentation and morph...eSAT Journals
Abstract In the field of medical image processing, detection of brain tumor from magnetic resonance image (MRI) brain scan has become one of the most active research. Detection of the tumor is the main objective of the system. Detection plays a critical role in biomedical imaging. In this paper, MRI brain image is used to tumor detection process. This system includes test the brain image process, image filtering, skull stripping, segmentation, morphological operation, calculation of the tumor area and determination of the tumor location. In this system, morphological operation of erosion algorithm is applied to detect the tumor. The detailed procedures are implemented using MATLAB. The proposed method extracts the tumor region accurately from the MRI brain image. The experimental results indicate that the proposed method efficiently detected the tumor region from the brain image. And then, the equation of the tumor region in this system is effectively applied in any shape of the tumor region. Key Words: Magnetic resonance image, skull stripping, segmentation, morphological operation, detection
Automatic Diagnosis of Abnormal Tumor Region from Brain Computed Tomography I...ijcseit
The research work presented in this paper is to achieve the tissue classification and automatically
diagnosis the abnormal tumor region present in Computed Tomography (CT) images using the wavelet
based statistical texture analysis method. Comparative studies of texture analysis method are performed
for the proposed wavelet based texture analysis method and Spatial Gray Level Dependence Method
(SGLDM). Our proposed system consists of four phases i) Discrete Wavelet Decomposition (ii)
Feature extraction (iii) Feature selection (iv) Analysis of extracted texture features by classifier. A
wavelet based statistical texture feature set is derived from normal and tumor regions. Genetic Algorithm
(GA) is used to select the optimal texture features from the set of extracted texture features. We construct
the Support Vector Machine (SVM) based classifier and evaluate the performance of classifier by
comparing the classification results of the SVM based classifier with the Back Propagation Neural network
classifier(BPN). The results of Support Vector Machine (SVM), BPN classifiers for the texture analysis
methods are evaluated using Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) analysis. Experimental results
show that the classification accuracy of SVM is 96% for 10 fold cross validation method. The system
has been tested with a number of real Computed Tomography brain images and has achieved satisfactory
results.
Evaluation of image segmentation and filtering with ann in the papaya leafijcsit
Precision agriculture is area with lack of cheap technology. The refinement of the production system brings
large advantages to the producer and the use of images makes the monitoring a more cheap methodology.
Macronutrients monitoring can to determine the health and vulnerability of the plant in specific stages. In
this paper is analyzed the method based on computational intelligence to work with image segmentation in
the identification of symptoms of plant nutrient deficiency. Artificial neural networks are evaluated for
image segmentation and filtering, several variations of parameters and insertion impulsive noise were
evaluated too. Satisfactory results are achieved with artificial neural for segmentation same with high
noise levels.
International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) is an open access online peer reviewed international journal that publishes research and review articles in the fields of Computer Science, Neural Networks, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Plastic Engineering, Food Technology, Textile Engineering, Nano Technology & science, Power Electronics, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Computational mathematics, Image processing, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, VLSI Testing & Low Power VLSI Design etc.
Early Detection of Lung Cancer Using Neural Network TechniquesIJERA Editor
Effective identification of lung cancer at an initial stage is an important and crucial aspect of image processing. Several data mining methods have been used to detect lung cancer at early stage. In this paper, an approach has been presented which will diagnose lung cancer at an initial stage using CT scan images which are in Dicom (DCM) format. One of the key challenges is to remove white Gaussian noise from the CT scan image, which is done using non local mean filter and to segment the lung Otsu’s thresholding is used. The textural and structural features are extracted from the processed image to form feature vector. In this paper, three classifiers namely SVM, ANN, and k-NN are applied for the detection of lung cancer to find the severity of disease (stage I or stage II) and comparison is made with ANN, and k-NN classifier with respect to different quality attributes such as accuracy, sensitivity(recall), precision and specificity. It has been found from results that SVM achieves higher accuracy of 95.12% while ANN achieves 92.68% accuracy on the given data set and k-NN shows least accuracy of 85.37%. SVM algorithm which achieves 95.12% accuracy helps patients to take remedial action on time and reduces mortality rate from this deadly disease.
Feature selection/extraction methods aimed to reduce the Microarray data. Basically in this comparative analysis, we have taken into account different feature selection and extraction strategies used up till now in the field of Biomedical. In the field of pattern recognition and biomedical imaging, dimensionality reduction is the central area of the research. Some mostly used features selection/extraction methods aim to analyze the most efficient data and achieve the stable performance of the algorithms, as well as improve the accuracy and performance of the classifier. This analysis also highlights widely used dimensionality reduction techniques used up till now in the field of biomedical imaging for the purpose to explore their potency, and weak points.
Automatic Detection of Malaria Parasites for Estimating ParasitemiaCSCJournals
Malaria parasitemia is a measurement of the amount of Malaria parasites in the patient's blood and an indicator for the degree of infection. In this paper an automatic technique is proposed for Malaria parasites detection from blood images by extracting red blood cells (RBCs) from blood image and classifying as normal or parasite infected. Manual counting of parasitemia is tedious and time consuming and need experts. Proposed automatic approach is used Otsu thresholding on gray image and green channel of the blood image for cell segmentation, watershed transform is used for separation of touching cells, color and statistical features are extracted from segmented cells and SVM binary classifier is used for classification of normal and parasite infected cells.
Comparison of Feature selection methods for diagnosis of cervical cancer usin...IJERA Editor
Even though a great attention has been given on the cervical cancer diagnosis, it is a tuff task to observe the
pap smear slide through microscope. Image Processing and Machine learning techniques helps the pathologist
to take proper decision. In this paper, we presented the diagnosis method using cervical cell image which is
obtained by Pap smear test. Image segmentation performed by multi-thresholding method and texture and shape
features are extracted related to cervical cancer. Feature selection is achieved using Mutual Information(MI),
Sequential Forward Search (SFS), Sequential Floating Forward Search (SFFS) and Random Subset Feature
Selection(RSFS) methods.
Automatic detection of optic disc and blood vessels from retinal images using...eSAT Journals
Abstract Diabetic retinopathy is the common cause of blindness. This paper presents the mathematical morphology method to detect and eliminate the optic disc (OD) and the blood vessels. Detection of optic disc and the blood vessels are the necessary steps in the detection of diabetic retinopathy because the blood vessels and the optic disc are the normal features of the retinal image. And also, the optic disc and the exudates are the brightest portion of the image. Detection of optic disc and the blood vessels can help the ophthalmologists to detect the diseases earlier and faster. Optic disc and the blood vessels are detected and eliminated by using mathematical morphology methods such as closing, filling, morphological reconstruction and Otsu algorithm. The objective of this paper is to detect the normal features of the image. By using the result, the ophthalmologists can detect the diseases easily. Keywords: Blood vessels, Diabetic retinopathy, mathematical morphology, Otsu algorithm, optic disc (OD)
Brain tumour segmentation based on local independent projection based classif...eSAT Journals
Abstract
Brain tumour detection and segmentation is most important and challenging task in early tumour diagnosis. There are various
segmentation methods available but they are still challenging methods because of its complex characteristics such as ambiguous
boundaries and high diversity. To overcome this problem we are going to implement automatic brain tumour detection and
segmentation method by using local independent projection based classification. In this method we are going to consider tumour
segmentation as a classification problem. In this paper locality is important in calculations of projections. Also local anchor
embedding is used to solve linear projection weights. The softmax regression model is used to improve classification performance.
In this study we used MRI images as training and testing data. Finally the brain tumour is classified into tumour and edema
region. The area of tumour region is calculated in pixels.
Key Words: Brain tumour detection & segmentation, local independent projection based classification, local anchor
embedding and softmax regression.
Blood image analysis to detect malaria using filtering image edges and classi...TELKOMNIKA JOURNAL
Malaria is a most dangerous mosquito borne disease and its infection spread through the infected mosquito. It especially affects the pregnant females and Children less than 5 years age. Malarial species commonly occur in five different shapes, Therefore, to avoid this crucial disease the contemporary researchers have proposed image analysis based solutions to mitigate this death causing disease. In this work, we propose diagnosis algorithm for malaria which is implemented for testing and evaluation in Matlab. We use Filtering and classification along with median filter and SVM classifier. Our proposed method identifies the infected cells from rest of blood images. The Median filtering smoothing technique is used to remove the noise. The feature vectors have been proposed to find out the abnormalities in blood cells. Feature vectors include (Form factor, measurement of roundness, shape, count total number of red cells and parasites). Primary aim of this research is to diagnose malaria by finding out infected cells. However, many techniques and algorithm have been implemented in this field using image processing but accuracy is not up to the point. Our proposed algorithm got more efficient results along with high accuracy as compared to NCC and Fuzzy classifier used by the researchers recently.
A novel algorithm for detection of tuberculosis bacilli in sputum smear fluor...IJECEIAES
This work proposes an algorithm aimed at recognizing and accounting Koch bacilli in digital images of microbiological sputum samples stained with auramine, in order to determine the degree of concentration and the state of the disease (tuberculosis). The algorithm was developed with the main objective of maximizing the sensitivity and specificity of the analysis of microbiological samples (recognition and counting of bacilli) according to each preparation method (direct and diluted pellets) in order to reduce the subjectivity of the visual inspection applied by the specialist at the time of analyzing the samples. The proposed algorithm consists of a background removal, an image improvement stage based on consecutive morphological closing operations, a segmentation stage of objects of interest based on thresholdization and a classification stage based on SVM. Each algorithmic stage was developed taking into account the method of preparation of the sample to be processed, being this aspect the main contribution of the proposed work, since it was possible to achieve very satisfactory results in terms of specificity and sensitivity. In this context, sensitivity levels of 91.24% and 93.79% were obtained. Specificity levels of 90.33% and 94.85% were also achieved for direct and diluted pellet methods respectively.
8 A Cellular Neural Network based system for cell counting in culture of biol...Cristian Randieri PhD
A Cellular Neural Network based system for cell counting in culture of biological cells - Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE International Conference on Control Applications, Trieste (Italy) 1-4 September 1998, Vol. 1, pp. 341-345.
di L. Bertucco, G. Nunnari, C. Randieri
Abstract
Cell counting methods are important tools in molecular biology as well as clinical medicine. It is not always technically possible to measure quantitatively the events of cellular growth and fission. When it can be done, the procedures are neither so simple nor without excessive tedium as to lend themselves practically to the necessary replication of observations with large number of individual cells. In this paper, we describe a CNN based system that uses a CNN simulator for counting cells. The performances of the proposed system are illustrated by a simple cell counting experiment using a Petroff- Hauser based counter system.
An Automated Solution for Extracting and Counting of White Blood Cells in a B...ijtsrd
There are various tools present commercially for automatic counting of Blood Cells. These tools are used for counting and finding the different types of Blood Cells present in the Blood Smear. The count of White Blood Cells is important for detecting various diseases as well as to follow the accurate treatment for the diseases like Anemia, Leukemia, Inflammation, Systemic illness, Allergy and Burn-Induced etc. The White Blood Cell count gives the vital information about the diseases which is used for diagnosing the patients. The old conventional method of counting White Blood Cells under microscope gives an inaccurate and unreliable results depending upon how the laboratory technician works on it. Another method for White Blood Cell counting is done through cell counter machine, which is very expensive and cannot be afforded to remote rural areas, hence to overcome such problems this paper proposes a cost-effective approach, i.e, automated solution using smart phone based solution for extracting and counting of White Blood Cells. Chaya P "An Automated Solution for Extracting and Counting of White Blood Cells in a Blood Smear Images" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-2 , February 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd20293.pdf
Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/engineering/information-technology/20293/an-automated-solution-for-extracting-and-counting-of-white-blood-cells-in-a-blood-smear-images/chaya-p
A HYBRID METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC COUNTING OF MICROORGANISMS IN MICROSCOPIC IMAGESacijjournal
Microscopic image analysis is an essential process to enable the automatic enumeration and quantitative
analysis of microbial images. There are several system are available for numerating microbial growth.
Some of the existing method may be inefficient to accurately count the overlapped microorganisms.
Therefore, in this paper we proposed an efficient method for automatic segmentation and counting of
microorganisms in microscopic images. This method uses a hybrid approach based on morphological
operation, active contour model and counting by region labelling process. The colony count value obtained
by this proposed method is compared with the manual count and the count value obtained from the existing
method.
Semi-automatic model to colony forming units countingIJECEIAES
Colony forming units counting is a conventional process carry out in bacteriological laboratories, and it is used to follow the behavior of bacteria in different conditions. Currently exist different systems, automatic or semiautomatic, to counting colony forming units exits, but, in general, many laboratories continue using manual counting, which consumes considerable time and effort from researchers and laboratory employees. This paper presents a mathematical model carry out to segment the colony forming units and, in this way, counting them from a digital image of the sample. The method uses the color space information of some points in the image and shows good behavior for images with many or few colony forming units in the sample, according to manual counting. The results show efficiencies close to 98% with MacConkey agar.
Identification the number of Mycobacterium tuberculosis based on sputum image...journalBEEI
Infectious disease caused by infection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is called tuberculosis (TB). A common method in detecting TB is by identifying number of mycobacterium TB in sputum manually. Unfortunately, manually calculation by pathologists take a relatively long time. Previous researches on TB bacteria were still limited to detect the absence or presence of mycobacterium TB in images of sputum. This research aims are identifying number of mycobacterium TB and determining accuracy of classification TB severity by approaching nonparametric Poisson regression model and applying an estimator namely local linear. Steps include processing of image, reducing of dimension by applying partial least square and discrete wavelet transformation, and then identifying the number of mycobacterium TB by using the proposed model approach. In this research, we get deviance values of 28.410 for nonparametric and 93.029 for parametric approaches and the average of classification accuracy values for 4 iterations of 92.75% for nonparametric and 85.5% for parametric approaches. Thus, for identifying many of mycobacterium TB met in images of sputum and classifying of TB severity, the proposed identifying method gives higher accuracy and shorter time in identifying number of mycobacterium TB than parametric linear regression method.
Identification of Disease in Leaves using Genetic Algorithmijtsrd
Plant disease is an impairment of normal state of a plant that interrupts or modifies its vital functions. Many leaf diseases are caused by pathogens. Agriculture is the mains try of the Indian economy. Perception of human eye is not so much stronger so as to observe minute variation in the infected part of leaf. In this paper, we are providing software solution to automatically detect and classify plant leaf diseases. In this we are using image processing techniques to classify diseases and quickly diagnosis can be carried out as per disease. This approach will enhance productivity of crops. It includes image processing techniques starting from image acquisition, preprocessing, testing, and training. K. Beulah Suganthy ""Identification of Disease in Leaves using Genetic Algorithm"" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-3 , April 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd22901.pdf
Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/engineering/electronics-and-communication-engineering/22901/identification-of-disease-in-leaves-using-genetic-algorithm/k-beulah-suganthy
Preliminary process in blast cell morphology identification based on image se...IJECEIAES
The diagnosis of blood disorders in developing countries usually uses the diagnostic procedure complete blood count (CBC). This is due to the limitations of existing health facilities so that examinations use standard microscopes as required in CBC examinations. However, the CBC process still poses a problem, namely that the procedure for manually counting blood cells with a microscope requires a lot of energy and time, and is expensive. This paper will discuss alternative uses of image processing technology in blast cell identification by using microscope images. In this paper, we will discuss in detail the morphological measurements which include the diameter, circumference and area of blast cell cells based on watershed segmentation methods and active contour. As a basis for further development, we compare the performance between the uses of both methods. The results show that the active contour method has an error percentage 5.15% while the watershed method has an error percentage 8.25%.
SEGMENTATION OF LUNG GLANDULAR CELLS USING MULTIPLE COLOR SPACESIJCSEA Journal
Early detection of lung cancer is a challenging problem, the world faces today. Prior to classify glandular cells as malignant or benign a reliable segmentation technique is required. In this paper we present a novel lung glandular cell segmentation technique. The technique uses a combination of multiple color spaces and various clustering algorithms to automatically find the best possible segmentation result. Unsupervised clustering methods of K-means and Fuzzy C-means were used on multiple color spaces such as HSV, LAB, LUV, xyY. Experimental results of segmentation using various color spaces are provided to show the performance of the proposed system.
Automated histopathological image analysis: a review on ROI extractioniosrjce
IOSR Journal of Computer Engineering (IOSR-JCE) is a double blind peer reviewed International Journal that provides rapid publication (within a month) of articles in all areas of computer engineering and its applications. The journal welcomes publications of high quality papers on theoretical developments and practical applications in computer technology. Original research papers, state-of-the-art reviews, and high quality technical notes are invited for publications.
Lung Cancer Detection using Machine Learningijtsrd
Modern three dimensional 3 D medical imaging offers the potential and promise for major advances in science and medicine as higher fidelity images are produced. Due to advances in computer aided diagnosis and continuous progress in the field of computerized medical image visualization, there is need to develop one of the most important fields within scientific imaging. From the early basis report on cancer patients it has been seen that a greater number of people die of lung cancer than from other cancers such as colon, breast and prostate cancers combined. Lung cancer are related to smoking or secondhand smoke , or less often to exposure to radon or other environmental factors that’s why this can be prevented. But still it is not yet clear if these cancers can be prevented or not. In this research work, approach of segmentation, feature extraction and Convolution Neural Network CNN will be applied for locating, characterizing cancer portion. Harpreet Singh | Er. Ravneet Kaur | "Lung Cancer Detection using Machine Learning" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-4 | Issue-6 , October 2020, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd33659.pdf Paper Url: https://www.ijtsrd.com/computer-science/computer-architecture/33659/lung-cancer-detection-using-machine-learning/harpreet-singh
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Bibliometric analysis highlighting the role of women in addressing climate ch...IJECEIAES
Fossil fuel consumption increased quickly, contributing to climate change
that is evident in unusual flooding and draughts, and global warming. Over
the past ten years, women's involvement in society has grown dramatically,
and they succeeded in playing a noticeable role in reducing climate change.
A bibliometric analysis of data from the last ten years has been carried out to
examine the role of women in addressing the climate change. The analysis's
findings discussed the relevant to the sustainable development goals (SDGs),
particularly SDG 7 and SDG 13. The results considered contributions made
by women in the various sectors while taking geographic dispersion into
account. The bibliometric analysis delves into topics including women's
leadership in environmental groups, their involvement in policymaking, their
contributions to sustainable development projects, and the influence of
gender diversity on attempts to mitigate climate change. This study's results
highlight how women have influenced policies and actions related to climate
change, point out areas of research deficiency and recommendations on how
to increase role of the women in addressing the climate change and
achieving sustainability. To achieve more successful results, this initiative
aims to highlight the significance of gender equality and encourage
inclusivity in climate change decision-making processes.
Voltage and frequency control of microgrid in presence of micro-turbine inter...IJECEIAES
The active and reactive load changes have a significant impact on voltage
and frequency. In this paper, in order to stabilize the microgrid (MG) against
load variations in islanding mode, the active and reactive power of all
distributed generators (DGs), including energy storage (battery), diesel
generator, and micro-turbine, are controlled. The micro-turbine generator is
connected to MG through a three-phase to three-phase matrix converter, and
the droop control method is applied for controlling the voltage and
frequency of MG. In addition, a method is introduced for voltage and
frequency control of micro-turbines in the transition state from gridconnected mode to islanding mode. A novel switching strategy of the matrix
converter is used for converting the high-frequency output voltage of the
micro-turbine to the grid-side frequency of the utility system. Moreover,
using the switching strategy, the low-order harmonics in the output current
and voltage are not produced, and consequently, the size of the output filter
would be reduced. In fact, the suggested control strategy is load-independent
and has no frequency conversion restrictions. The proposed approach for
voltage and frequency regulation demonstrates exceptional performance and
favorable response across various load alteration scenarios. The suggested
strategy is examined in several scenarios in the MG test systems, and the
simulation results are addressed.
Enhancing battery system identification: nonlinear autoregressive modeling fo...IJECEIAES
Precisely characterizing Li-ion batteries is essential for optimizing their
performance, enhancing safety, and prolonging their lifespan across various
applications, such as electric vehicles and renewable energy systems. This
article introduces an innovative nonlinear methodology for system
identification of a Li-ion battery, employing a nonlinear autoregressive with
exogenous inputs (NARX) model. The proposed approach integrates the
benefits of nonlinear modeling with the adaptability of the NARX structure,
facilitating a more comprehensive representation of the intricate
electrochemical processes within the battery. Experimental data collected
from a Li-ion battery operating under diverse scenarios are employed to
validate the effectiveness of the proposed methodology. The identified
NARX model exhibits superior accuracy in predicting the battery's behavior
compared to traditional linear models. This study underscores the
importance of accounting for nonlinearities in battery modeling, providing
insights into the intricate relationships between state-of-charge, voltage, and
current under dynamic conditions.
Smart grid deployment: from a bibliometric analysis to a surveyIJECEIAES
Smart grids are one of the last decades' innovations in electrical energy.
They bring relevant advantages compared to the traditional grid and
significant interest from the research community. Assessing the field's
evolution is essential to propose guidelines for facing new and future smart
grid challenges. In addition, knowing the main technologies involved in the
deployment of smart grids (SGs) is important to highlight possible
shortcomings that can be mitigated by developing new tools. This paper
contributes to the research trends mentioned above by focusing on two
objectives. First, a bibliometric analysis is presented to give an overview of
the current research level about smart grid deployment. Second, a survey of
the main technological approaches used for smart grid implementation and
their contributions are highlighted. To that effect, we searched the Web of
Science (WoS), and the Scopus databases. We obtained 5,663 documents
from WoS and 7,215 from Scopus on smart grid implementation or
deployment. With the extraction limitation in the Scopus database, 5,872 of
the 7,215 documents were extracted using a multi-step process. These two
datasets have been analyzed using a bibliometric tool called bibliometrix.
The main outputs are presented with some recommendations for future
research.
Use of analytical hierarchy process for selecting and prioritizing islanding ...IJECEIAES
One of the problems that are associated to power systems is islanding
condition, which must be rapidly and properly detected to prevent any
negative consequences on the system's protection, stability, and security.
This paper offers a thorough overview of several islanding detection
strategies, which are divided into two categories: classic approaches,
including local and remote approaches, and modern techniques, including
techniques based on signal processing and computational intelligence.
Additionally, each approach is compared and assessed based on several
factors, including implementation costs, non-detected zones, declining
power quality, and response times using the analytical hierarchy process
(AHP). The multi-criteria decision-making analysis shows that the overall
weight of passive methods (24.7%), active methods (7.8%), hybrid methods
(5.6%), remote methods (14.5%), signal processing-based methods (26.6%),
and computational intelligent-based methods (20.8%) based on the
comparison of all criteria together. Thus, it can be seen from the total weight
that hybrid approaches are the least suitable to be chosen, while signal
processing-based methods are the most appropriate islanding detection
method to be selected and implemented in power system with respect to the
aforementioned factors. Using Expert Choice software, the proposed
hierarchy model is studied and examined.
Enhancing of single-stage grid-connected photovoltaic system using fuzzy logi...IJECEIAES
The power generated by photovoltaic (PV) systems is influenced by
environmental factors. This variability hampers the control and utilization of
solar cells' peak output. In this study, a single-stage grid-connected PV
system is designed to enhance power quality. Our approach employs fuzzy
logic in the direct power control (DPC) of a three-phase voltage source
inverter (VSI), enabling seamless integration of the PV connected to the
grid. Additionally, a fuzzy logic-based maximum power point tracking
(MPPT) controller is adopted, which outperforms traditional methods like
incremental conductance (INC) in enhancing solar cell efficiency and
minimizing the response time. Moreover, the inverter's real-time active and
reactive power is directly managed to achieve a unity power factor (UPF).
The system's performance is assessed through MATLAB/Simulink
implementation, showing marked improvement over conventional methods,
particularly in steady-state and varying weather conditions. For solar
irradiances of 500 and 1,000 W/m2
, the results show that the proposed
method reduces the total harmonic distortion (THD) of the injected current
to the grid by approximately 46% and 38% compared to conventional
methods, respectively. Furthermore, we compare the simulation results with
IEEE standards to evaluate the system's grid compatibility.
Enhancing photovoltaic system maximum power point tracking with fuzzy logic-b...IJECEIAES
Photovoltaic systems have emerged as a promising energy resource that
caters to the future needs of society, owing to their renewable, inexhaustible,
and cost-free nature. The power output of these systems relies on solar cell
radiation and temperature. In order to mitigate the dependence on
atmospheric conditions and enhance power tracking, a conventional
approach has been improved by integrating various methods. To optimize
the generation of electricity from solar systems, the maximum power point
tracking (MPPT) technique is employed. To overcome limitations such as
steady-state voltage oscillations and improve transient response, two
traditional MPPT methods, namely fuzzy logic controller (FLC) and perturb
and observe (P&O), have been modified. This research paper aims to
simulate and validate the step size of the proposed modified P&O and FLC
techniques within the MPPT algorithm using MATLAB/Simulink for
efficient power tracking in photovoltaic systems.
Adaptive synchronous sliding control for a robot manipulator based on neural ...IJECEIAES
Robot manipulators have become important equipment in production lines, medical fields, and transportation. Improving the quality of trajectory tracking for
robot hands is always an attractive topic in the research community. This is a
challenging problem because robot manipulators are complex nonlinear systems
and are often subject to fluctuations in loads and external disturbances. This
article proposes an adaptive synchronous sliding control scheme to improve trajectory tracking performance for a robot manipulator. The proposed controller
ensures that the positions of the joints track the desired trajectory, synchronize
the errors, and significantly reduces chattering. First, the synchronous tracking
errors and synchronous sliding surfaces are presented. Second, the synchronous
tracking error dynamics are determined. Third, a robust adaptive control law is
designed,the unknown components of the model are estimated online by the neural network, and the parameters of the switching elements are selected by fuzzy
logic. The built algorithm ensures that the tracking and approximation errors
are ultimately uniformly bounded (UUB). Finally, the effectiveness of the constructed algorithm is demonstrated through simulation and experimental results.
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Remote field-programmable gate array laboratory for signal acquisition and de...IJECEIAES
A remote laboratory utilizing field-programmable gate array (FPGA) technologies enhances students’ learning experience anywhere and anytime in embedded system design. Existing remote laboratories prioritize hardware access and visual feedback for observing board behavior after programming, neglecting comprehensive debugging tools to resolve errors that require internal signal acquisition. This paper proposes a novel remote embeddedsystem design approach targeting FPGA technologies that are fully interactive via a web-based platform. Our solution provides FPGA board access and debugging capabilities beyond the visual feedback provided by existing remote laboratories. We implemented a lab module that allows users to seamlessly incorporate into their FPGA design. The module minimizes hardware resource utilization while enabling the acquisition of a large number of data samples from the signal during the experiments by adaptively compressing the signal prior to data transmission. The results demonstrate an average compression ratio of 2.90 across three benchmark signals, indicating efficient signal acquisition and effective debugging and analysis. This method allows users to acquire more data samples than conventional methods. The proposed lab allows students to remotely test and debug their designs, bridging the gap between theory and practice in embedded system design.
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Efficiently identifying and resolving code smells enhances software project quality. This paper presents a novel solution, utilizing automated machine learning (AutoML) techniques, to detect code smells and apply move method refactoring. By evaluating code metrics before and after refactoring, we assessed its impact on coupling, complexity, and cohesion. Key contributions of this research include a unique dataset for code smell classification and the development of models using AutoGluon for optimal performance. Furthermore, the study identifies the top 20 influential features in classifying feature envy, a well-known code smell, stemming from excessive reliance on external classes. We also explored how move method refactoring addresses feature envy, revealing reduced coupling and complexity, and improved cohesion, ultimately enhancing code quality. In summary, this research offers an empirical, data-driven approach, integrating AutoML and move method refactoring to optimize software project quality. Insights gained shed light on the benefits of refactoring on code quality and the significance of specific features in detecting feature envy. Future research can expand to explore additional refactoring techniques and a broader range of code metrics, advancing software engineering practices and standards.
Smart monitoring technique for solar cell systems using internet of things ba...IJECEIAES
Rapidly and remotely monitoring and receiving the solar cell systems status parameters, solar irradiance, temperature, and humidity, are critical issues in enhancement their efficiency. Hence, in the present article an improved smart prototype of internet of things (IoT) technique based on embedded system through NodeMCU ESP8266 (ESP-12E) was carried out experimentally. Three different regions at Egypt; Luxor, Cairo, and El-Beheira cities were chosen to study their solar irradiance profile, temperature, and humidity by the proposed IoT system. The monitoring data of solar irradiance, temperature, and humidity were live visualized directly by Ubidots through hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) protocol. The measured solar power radiation in Luxor, Cairo, and El-Beheira ranged between 216-1000, 245-958, and 187-692 W/m 2 respectively during the solar day. The accuracy and rapidity of obtaining monitoring results using the proposed IoT system made it a strong candidate for application in monitoring solar cell systems. On the other hand, the obtained solar power radiation results of the three considered regions strongly candidate Luxor and Cairo as suitable places to build up a solar cells system station rather than El-Beheira.
An efficient security framework for intrusion detection and prevention in int...IJECEIAES
Over the past few years, the internet of things (IoT) has advanced to connect billions of smart devices to improve quality of life. However, anomalies or malicious intrusions pose several security loopholes, leading to performance degradation and threat to data security in IoT operations. Thereby, IoT security systems must keep an eye on and restrict unwanted events from occurring in the IoT network. Recently, various technical solutions based on machine learning (ML) models have been derived towards identifying and restricting unwanted events in IoT. However, most ML-based approaches are prone to miss-classification due to inappropriate feature selection. Additionally, most ML approaches applied to intrusion detection and prevention consider supervised learning, which requires a large amount of labeled data to be trained. Consequently, such complex datasets are impossible to source in a large network like IoT. To address this problem, this proposed study introduces an efficient learning mechanism to strengthen the IoT security aspects. The proposed algorithm incorporates supervised and unsupervised approaches to improve the learning models for intrusion detection and mitigation. Compared with the related works, the experimental outcome shows that the model performs well in a benchmark dataset. It accomplishes an improved detection accuracy of approximately 99.21%.
Developing a smart system for infant incubators using the internet of things ...IJECEIAES
This research is developing an incubator system that integrates the internet of things and artificial intelligence to improve care for premature babies. The system workflow starts with sensors that collect data from the incubator. Then, the data is sent in real-time to the internet of things (IoT) broker eclipse mosquito using the message queue telemetry transport (MQTT) protocol version 5.0. After that, the data is stored in a database for analysis using the long short-term memory network (LSTM) method and displayed in a web application using an application programming interface (API) service. Furthermore, the experimental results produce as many as 2,880 rows of data stored in the database. The correlation coefficient between the target attribute and other attributes ranges from 0.23 to 0.48. Next, several experiments were conducted to evaluate the model-predicted value on the test data. The best results are obtained using a two-layer LSTM configuration model, each with 60 neurons and a lookback setting 6. This model produces an R 2 value of 0.934, with a root mean square error (RMSE) value of 0.015 and a mean absolute error (MAE) of 0.008. In addition, the R 2 value was also evaluated for each attribute used as input, with a result of values between 0.590 and 0.845.
A review on internet of things-based stingless bee's honey production with im...IJECEIAES
Honey is produced exclusively by honeybees and stingless bees which both are well adapted to tropical and subtropical regions such as Malaysia. Stingless bees are known for producing small amounts of honey and are known for having a unique flavor profile. Problem identified that many stingless bees collapsed due to weather, temperature and environment. It is critical to understand the relationship between the production of stingless bee honey and environmental conditions to improve honey production. Thus, this paper presents a review on stingless bee's honey production and prediction modeling. About 54 previous research has been analyzed and compared in identifying the research gaps. A framework on modeling the prediction of stingless bee honey is derived. The result presents the comparison and analysis on the internet of things (IoT) monitoring systems, honey production estimation, convolution neural networks (CNNs), and automatic identification methods on bee species. It is identified based on image detection method the top best three efficiency presents CNN is at 98.67%, densely connected convolutional networks with YOLO v3 is 97.7%, and DenseNet201 convolutional networks 99.81%. This study is significant to assist the researcher in developing a model for predicting stingless honey produced by bee's output, which is important for a stable economy and food security.
A trust based secure access control using authentication mechanism for intero...IJECEIAES
The internet of things (IoT) is a revolutionary innovation in many aspects of our society including interactions, financial activity, and global security such as the military and battlefield internet. Due to the limited energy and processing capacity of network devices, security, energy consumption, compatibility, and device heterogeneity are the long-term IoT problems. As a result, energy and security are critical for data transmission across edge and IoT networks. Existing IoT interoperability techniques need more computation time, have unreliable authentication mechanisms that break easily, lose data easily, and have low confidentiality. In this paper, a key agreement protocol-based authentication mechanism for IoT devices is offered as a solution to this issue. This system makes use of information exchange, which must be secured to prevent access by unauthorized users. Using a compact contiki/cooja simulator, the performance and design of the suggested framework are validated. The simulation findings are evaluated based on detection of malicious nodes after 60 minutes of simulation. The suggested trust method, which is based on privacy access control, reduced packet loss ratio to 0.32%, consumed 0.39% power, and had the greatest average residual energy of 0.99 mJoules at 10 nodes.
Fuzzy linear programming with the intuitionistic polygonal fuzzy numbersIJECEIAES
In real world applications, data are subject to ambiguity due to several factors; fuzzy sets and fuzzy numbers propose a great tool to model such ambiguity. In case of hesitation, the complement of a membership value in fuzzy numbers can be different from the non-membership value, in which case we can model using intuitionistic fuzzy numbers as they provide flexibility by defining both a membership and a non-membership functions. In this article, we consider the intuitionistic fuzzy linear programming problem with intuitionistic polygonal fuzzy numbers, which is a generalization of the previous polygonal fuzzy numbers found in the literature. We present a modification of the simplex method that can be used to solve any general intuitionistic fuzzy linear programming problem after approximating the problem by an intuitionistic polygonal fuzzy number with n edges. This method is given in a simple tableau formulation, and then applied on numerical examples for clarity.
The performance of artificial intelligence in prostate magnetic resonance im...IJECEIAES
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Computer-assisted cell counting using image processing and analysis has been continuously
developed and improved to provide the requirements of high reliability, specificity and sensitivity for
different cell types and test protocols. For example, Sui et al. [12] developed a cell counting method for host
cells in a bright field for insect cells by using a nonlinear transformed sliding band filter. They obtained a low
error rate and a high accuracy when comparing their method with a manual counting. A cell counting method
for white blood cells was developed using Matlab to evaluate hematic pathologies in terms of numbers, sizes
and types of white blood cells [13]. They applied image enhancement and image segmentation as pre-
processing steps and used a neural network for classification. Piccinini et al. [14] used a fully automated
mosaicing method to improve the reliability and reproducibility of live and dead cell counting. Mouelhi and
colleagues [15] also described automatic image segmentation with active contour for stained nuclei in breast
cancer tissue which could segment touching nuclei to get the total number of breast cancer nuclei.
The quality of light microscopy digital images taken from hemocytometry significantly influences
visual analysis, including cell counting. Therefore, most light microscopy digital images need to undergo a
pre-processing step before cell segmentation is performed. Noise filtering is one of the pre-processing steps
in every digital image processing technique. A median filter is a popular noise filter which is used to remove
salt and pepper noise in digital images [16-19] . It has been reported that impulse noise in high-density noisy
images can be effectively removed by using an improved algorithm such as a decision based adaptive
neighborhood median filter [20]. Mahmood and Mansor [21] used a morphological tool with the Hough
transform technique to detect and estimate the number of red blood cells in blood sample images.
Liew et al. [22] applied image processing methods to develop a prototype for a cell detection algorithm using
circular Hough transform to detect the number of cells in bee combs from digital images. Although there are
many methods for cell detection and cell counting, computer-assisted cell counting methods are still being
developed to improve the counting accuracy and to match with new applications. Furthermore, there is few
automated counting software for trypan blue stained cells in biomedical research.
In this paper, we developed an automated counting approach for trypan blue-stained cells which is
based on simple digital image processing techniques including image noise reduction, image enhancement,
image segmentation and image morphological operations. To evaluate the effectiveness of our approach, both
live and dead cells were quantified using this proposed method and compared with manual counting by three
well-experienced counters and ImageJ, opensource software.
2. RESEARCH METHOD
2.1. Sample preparation and image acquisition
A human breast cancer cell line (MDA-MB-231) purchased from the American Type Culture
Collection (ATCC, Canada) was used as an example in this study. An overview of the study procedure is
shown in Figure 1. The sample preparation generally followed the procedure of Piccinini et al. [14]. In brief,
the cells were detached from the flask by short exposure to trypsin/EDTA, washed in the culture media by
centrifugation and re-suspended in 5 mL of fresh medium. After trypsinization, the cells were stained with
trypan blue solution and then 20 µL of this mixture was placed in a hemocytometer counting chamber.
Figure 1. Trypan blue-stained MDA-MB-231 cells in the hemocytometer
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Images of the stained cells were obtained by an inverted Olympus IX51 microscope equipped with a
digital Olympus DP72 camera with 2/3-inch CCD. The images were acquired in the bright field by using
Olympus UPLanFL N 10x0.13 as standard objective lens. An example of digital trypan blue-stained cell
images is shown in Figure 2. The images were cropped to a 16-square grid and then image processing
analysis was performed as shown in the cell counting approach flowchart as presented in Figure 3.
Figure 2. An example of an original trypan blue–stained
image
Figure 3. Overview of the image processing for
live and dead cells counting
2.2. Image filtering
In our study, there are piles of debris (dark spots) in trypan blue-stained microscopic images from
the hemocytometer which can cause cell artifacts as shown in Figure 2. We applied a guided image filter that
spatially distributed the filtering strengths with low-level features to the image to smooth and remove the
small debris from background including maintaining the edge features of image and introducing less
artifacts [23, 24]. The filtering process needs constraints from the input p to determine the linear coefficients
(ak, bk). The filtering output q is a linear transform of the guidance I in a window k centered at the pixel k
since the input p needs to subtract some unwanted components n such as noise/textures as follows:
qi = akIi + bk, ik (1)
qi = pi - ni (2)
Furthermore, the neighborhood size around each pixel as a scalar or two-element vector, [M, N] was 30 to
remove small debris in the background.
2.3. Color space and grayscale conversion
In our study, we converted a color space of the trypan blue stained images which was originally
RGB images by applying HSV (Hue Saturation and Value) color space. The HSV color space is quite similar
to the way in which humans perceive color and more suitable for image segmentation and analysis than the
RGB model. The HSV converted images were then used to perform live cells segmentation. Furthermore,
the original RGB images were also converted to grayscale for dead cells detection.
2.4. Image segmentation
The segmentation step is very crucial because the accuracy of the subsequent processes mainly
depends on the correct segmentation. Prior to image segmentation, the brightness of a HSV converted image
is adjusted for getting the better contrast. Our approach utilized Otsu’s thresholding method to extract
foreground (live cells) from the background and to turn the image to black and white [25]. As our trypan
blue-stained microscopic images still contained counterfeit structures in the nuclei, however, which caused
difficulty for extraction and segmentation. To eliminate this drawback, two operations based on
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morphological reconstruction were used: opening and dilation. The first operation removes the disconnected
bright objects that are smaller than the structuring element [26]. Similarly, the second one removes the
disconnected dark objects smaller than the structuring element. A disk-shaped structuring element with radius
“n” was assigned in the algorithm. The amount of detail presented in the image depends on the size of the
structuring element with radius “n”. Furthermore, we applied the effective threshold value from the
histogram of a grayscale image to obtain only dead cells in the black and white image.
2.5. Cell counting
The process of counting the cells was achieved by applying the labeling technique to the binary
images after thresholding to distinguish objects from the background and then we measured the geometric
properties using a centroid and a boundary to select live and dead cells from labeled regions.
Furthermore, the counting results by our approach were compared to the manual counting by three experts as
well as comparing to automatic cell counting with ImageJ using CellCountingMacro2-v1.01.ijm (open-
source software).
3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
The testing was carried out using thirty six trypan blue-stained microscopic images. The debris in
the images was removed after applying an image-guided filter as shown in Figure 4. As we performed color
space conversion, the images based on HSV channels are shown in Figure 5. It can be seen that the image
with the saturation channel as shown in Figure 5b gave a better contrast of live cells as compared to other
channels. Then after brightness adjustment, the live cells became clearly extracted from the background as
shown in Figure 6. As we used Otsu’s thresholding to segment the live cells from the background and the
nuclei of live cells were opened and dilated after the thresholding, the result of segmentation step for live cell
is demonstrated in Figure 7a. The image segmentation of dead cells after using the histogram thresholding is
presented in Figure 7b. After the image segmentation, the image was processed with the counting algorithm
to identify and count both live and dead cells. The final images showing the live and dead cells identification
are respectively presented in Figure 8 and Figure 9.
Figure 4. Examples of (a) original image and (b) image after guided image filter process
Figure 5. Images after HSV color space conversion:
(a) Hue channel image, (b) Saturation channel image and
(c) Value channel image
Figure 6. Saturation channel
image after brightness adjustment
showing better contrast of live
cells from the background
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The live cells are marked with yellow circles while the dead cells are marked as blue circles.
As shown in Figure 8, it was noticed that some live cells could not be detected and counted due to their non-
distinctive nuclei. Figure 10 shows the plot of the number of live and dead cells counted by our approach
against the averaged results from manual counting. Our approach provided a very similar counting result of
live cells to the experts’ counting result with a high correlation coefficient (r=0.99) whereas a correlation
coefficient in case of the dead cells counting is 0.74.
Figure 7. Image after applying Otsu’s method showing a black and white image with
(a) live cells and (b) dead cells
Figure 8. Example of image showing live cells detection marked with yellow circle
Figure 9. Example of image showing dead cells detection marked with blue circle
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Figure 10. Correlation plots between the counting results by the new approach and experts for
(a) live cells and (b) dead cells
In comparison with the experts, the accuracy percentages of cell counting from 36 images were
determined. We obtained 83±6% and 63±10% for the average accuracy of live cell counting and dead cell
counting respectively. We also calculated the average time consumption per image from each expert and our
approach as illustrated in Figure 11. Our approach consumed shorter time than manual counting by experts.
It is clearly noticed that there is a variation in counting time among the experts. Furthermore, Figure 12
demonstrates the average number of live and total cells from manual, ImageJ and proposed approach.
It shows that our proposed approach had the average number of live cells slightly higher than manual
counting and it was better than the ImageJ using CellCountingMacro2-v1.01.ijm. In addition, our approach
could detect the dead cells whereas ImageJ with CellCountingMacro2-plugin could not do that.
We showed that the guided image filtering provided smooth edge maintenance to our objects,
leading to a better quality input image for our approach [24]. As our results, the accuracy of live cells
counting, for each image, was very high (>83%) due to the good contrast between foreground and
background after preprocessing with the image noise reduction using a guided image filter and a saturated
channel [27]. We experienced a similar high accuracy of live cells counting using similar sample images in
our previous work using a K-mean clustering technique [28]. However, this new simple method provided a
higher accuracy. With this approach, the brightness of live cells is clearly different from the image
background, which is a distinct advantage for image thresholding for live cells detection. Piccinini and
colleagues [14] presented a high accuracy of live cells counting using an automated image mosaicing
technique for A549 and KKP cell lines. The high accuracy of live cell counting in both their results and ours
particularly relates to the clearly distinguishable shape of live cells and a good background contrast.
However, some images we could not completely detect all live cells because there was neither structure in
nucleus nor smaller structure than our values of structuring element’s radius in nucleus. This caused some
images got an accuracy less than 90%. Furthermore, our approach did not require manual thresholding
adjustment therefore it reduced time consuming.
Figure 11. Time consumption for cell counting
measured by three experts and our
proposed approach
Figure 12. A plot of the average number of live, dead
and total cells counted by manual counting,
ImageJ and our approach
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Our approach provided less number of dead cells compared to manual counting by the experts.
This might have been caused by the ineffectiveness of dead cell segmentation. It should be noted that
segmentation results depend on the quality of preparation and the coloring of trypan blue-stained microscopic
images. Overstraining and poor digitization can adversely affect segmentation results [29]. These quandaries
infrequently occur and can be remedied with a more rigorous quality control during the sample preparation
and image acquisition. Moreover, dead cells from apoptosis presented in fragments can lead to over
counting [30]. Therefore, the counting of dead cells still has erroneous results much more than live cells
counting. For example, the approach using automated image mosaicking had false positive results on dead
cell counting compared to the experts much more than the live cells counting [14]. It remains a challenge to
improve the accuracy of dead cells counting by improving either image noise reduction or image
segmentation as well as counting logic for fragmented dead cell.
Comparing the results of cell counting between our approach and ImageJ with automatic cell
counting plugin, our approach could give the number of both live cells and dead cells whereas ImageJ could
detect only live cells. This indicates that the ImageJ plugin for automatic cell counting does not serve our
trypan blue stained images and requirements. It seems ImageJ could automatically count cells with good
contrast between cells and background therefore dead cells in our images are quite difficult to be detected.
It might be necessary to do an image preprocessing for our images before analyzing with ImageJ. On the
other hand, our approach already included the image preprocessing such as noise filtering and contrast
enhancement to improve the image quality in the algorithm.
This study was based on only 36 trypan blue-stained images from one cell line which could limit the
generalization of the results for other cell lines. Furthermore, there were several limitations which affected
the counting accuracy. For example, we assumed that the cell diameters in all images were about the same
size, while in fact the dead cells in our study had various diameters, especially when the cells counted by our
approach was greater than the results counted by the experts. The quality of image also affects our counting
such as the brightness of the image background. Furthermore, low contrast can influence the image
segmentation and lead to lower accuracy of cell counting. As our trypan blue-stained microscopic images
have a dark background, the color of the dead cells is quite similar to the background, which requires several
trials for dead cells segmentation. Moreover, we applied a mean threshold value based on 36 images for dead
cells segmentation, thus it is necessary to recalculate the mean threshold value if the number of images or
image background is changed. In addition, employing a large structuring element can oversimplify the image,
while using too small a structuring element does not always produce desirable results as many of the
substructures within the large nuclei remain, affecting the segmentation performance. Therefore, optimum
parameters should be determined such as threshold value and radius of structuring element.
4. CONCLUSION
In this study, we present a computer-assisted cell counting approach on trypan blue-stained
microscopic images of a breast cancer cell line. The results of cell counting from the trypan blue-stained
microscopic images using our approach achieved a remarkable accuracy compared to three experts,
especially in counting the number of live cells. Our simple method could identify overlapping cells and count
them correctly. This automated counting approach is beneficial to biologists and biomedical researchers.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The authors would like to acknowledge the Thailand's Education Hub for the Southern Region of
ASEAN Countries (TEH-AC) scholarship given to Ms. Su Mon Aung from the Graduate School, Prince of
Songkla University. We would like to thank Associate Professor Pornchai Phukpattaranont from the Faculty
of Engineering, Prince of Songkla University for advice on image processing. We appreciated our technical
discussions with Ms. Adeline Verel and Ms. Pamina Bernou, internship students from Telecom Physique
Strasbourg, France. We also thank the International Affairs Office of the Faculty of Medicine, Prince of
Songkla University for editing the English of the manuscript.
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BIOGRAPHIES OF AUTHORS
Su Mon Aung received her bachelor degree of technology and bachelor degree of engineering from
Mandalay Technological University, Myanmar in 2012 and 2013 respectively. Now, she is studying
a master degree in Biomedical Engineering at Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University.
She was awarded for Thailand’s Education Hub for ASEAN countries (TEH-AC) scholarship for
Master Degree Program (2015-2017)
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Kanyanatt Kanokwiroon received the B.Sc. degree (with honors) in Biotechnology in 2000 and
Ph.D. degrees in Biochemistry from Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai, Songkhla, Thailand in
2007. She started her career as a lecturer at Faculty of Science and Industrial Technology, Prince of
Songkla University, Surat Thani Campus in 2008. She is currently an Assistant Professor at
Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University. Her
research interests cover the molecular mechanism and biomarker identification of breast
tumorigenesis in breast cancer.
Tonghathai Phairatana received her B.Sc. in Physics in 2009 from Prince of Songkla University,
Thailand. She was awarded M.Sc. in 2011 under the supervision of Prof. Molly Stevens and PhD in
2016 under the direction of Prof. Martyn Boutelle in Biomedical Engineering from Imperial College
London, United Kingdom. She is currently a lecturer and a researcher at the Institute of Biomedical
Engineering, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, Songkhla, Thailand. Her current
research interests focus on electrochemical biosensors and microfluidics for the development of
clinical diagnostic systems and physiological monitoring in real-time.
Surapong Chatpun received his B. Eng in Mechanical Engineering in 1996 from Chulalongkorn
University, Thailand. He received his M. Eng in Mechanical Engineering in 2003 from University of
Tokyo, Japan. He was awarded Ph.D. in Bioengineering from University of California, San Diego,
United State. He joined the Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of
Songkla University as a lecturer in 2010. Now, he is an assistant professor. His current research
interests include cardiovascular engineering, biomechanics, image and signal analysis and medical
devices.