Medical Image Classification Using Different Machine Learning Algorithms

• Main Authors: Sami Ismael, Shahab Kareem, Firas Almukhtar
• Format: Article
• Language: Arabic
• Published: Mosul University 2020-05-01
• Series: Al-Rafidain Journal of Computer Sciences and Mathematics
• Subjects: machine learning (ml); classification; segmentation; digital image; image extraction; and histogram
• Online Access: https://csmj.mosuljournals.com/article_164682_f427b45e8a2fe3daedc8024067613fd5.pdf

The different types of white blood cells equips us an important data for diagnosing and identifying of many diseases. The automation of this task can save time and avoid errors in the identification process. In this paper, we explore whether using shape features of nucleus is sufficient to classify white blood cells or not. According to this, an automatic system is implemented that is able to identify and analyze White Blood Cells (WBCs) into five categories (Basophil, Eosinophil, Lymphocyte, Monocyte, and Neutrophil). Four steps are required for such a system; the first step represents the segmentation of the cell images and the second step involves the scanning of each segmented image to prepare its dataset. Extracting the shapes and textures from scanned image are performed in the third step. Finally, different machine learning algorithms such as (K* classifier, Additive Regression, Bagging, Input Mapped Classifier, or Decision Table) is separately applied to the extracted (shapes and textures) to obtain the results. Each algorithm results are compared to select the best one according to different criteria’s.<br />