DSP Image Processing and Introduction to Mendeley
The classes in all levels in Cavite, Philippines was suspended on August 12, 2017, due to Typhoon Lannie and tropical depression Maring. Due to that reason we were unable to perform our reporting in DSP Laboratory. In our assignment, we were assigned to search for an example of an article about feature extraction using image processing with classifications and report the process in using MATLAB in front of the class at the next meeting. I search the applications of MATLAB in the medical field and find the “Automatic Leukemia Detection using image processing technique” by Tathagata Hazra, Mrinal Kumar, Dr. Sanjaya Shankar Tripathy, and I chose it as my article to be presented.
The article I chose was about the proposition of automated leukemia identification approach because the manual counting process is time taking and not that much accurate because it completely depends on the physician’s skill and to conquer these disadvantages a computerized system of identifying leukemia is created. The techniques used were some filtering techniques and k-mean clustering approach for image preprocessing and segmentation purpose respectively. After that, an automated counting algorithm is used to count WBC to detect leukemia. Some features like area, perimeter, mean, centroid, solidity, smoothness, skewness, energy, entropy, homogeneity, standard deviation etc. are extracted and calculated. Our task is to show to the class and explain the MATLAB process used in the article. The further explanation regarding with my article will be in my next week’s blog.
Even though the class was suspended we were lectured by our diligent Professor Engr. Edwin Arboleda in our Facebook private group about the techniques used in executing Mendeley, a citing tool used in creating journals. As a college student, we were obligated to create our own research journal and we will encounter difficulties in handling citations, so we were taught about using Mendeley to outweigh the difficulties offered in creating journals.