DCT-Based White Blood Cell Image Enhancement for Recognition Using Deep Learning

White blood cell (WBC) recognition is still a challenging problem because of the high variability and complexity of blood cell images. Blood cell images can vary in quality, resolution, contrast, illumination, staining, and background. Blood cells can also vary in shape, size, color, texture, and di...

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Main Authors: Anh Quynh Vu, Hoan Quoc Bui, Long Tuan Nguyen, Tuyen Ngoc Le
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description White blood cell (WBC) recognition is still a challenging problem because of the high variability and complexity of blood cell images. Blood cell images can vary in quality, resolution, contrast, illumination, staining, and background. Blood cells can also vary in shape, size, color, texture, and distribution. Moreover, blood cells can overlap, cluster, or deform, making them challenging to segment and identify. This paper proposed an efficient automatic illumination compensation algorithm using singular value decomposition in the cosine domain (CSVDC) to enhance WBC images in the preprocessing step. Firstly, the WBC color image is split into three color channels and then mapped to the frequency domain using the discrete cosine transform (DCT) to get their DCT coefficient matrices. Next, the compensation coefficients are constructed based on the DC terms and DCT coefficient matrices’ most significant singular values. The DCT coefficient matrices are then linearly adjusted by multiplying with the compensation coefficients. Finally, three color channels are reconstructed using the inverted DCT to get the enhanced WBC image. Experimental results for the four most common PBC_dataset_normal_DIB, Raabin-WBC, BCCD, and Munich AML Morphology datasets using state-of-art deep learning models, including VGG16, GoogLeNet, and RestNet, illustrate the effectiveness of the CSVDC algorithm. In particular, on the PBC_dataset_normal_DIB dataset, when using the ResNet, the proposed enhanced WBC images have a higher average recognition rate compared to the original, ASVDF, ASVDW, and AHOSVD images by 3.82%, 2.69%, 11.37%, and 8.62%, respectively. Experimental results show that our method dramatically improves deep learning-based WBC recognition accuracy.
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spelling doaj-art-6fbf05c9a3dc4882a5b9fe4f6b4fae912024-11-23T00:01:06ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362024-01-011217157117158810.1109/ACCESS.2024.350129610756654DCT-Based White Blood Cell Image Enhancement for Recognition Using Deep LearningAnh Quynh Vu0Hoan Quoc Bui1Long Tuan Nguyen2https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6264-8855Tuyen Ngoc Le3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5155-2150Faculty of Economic Mathematics, National Economics University, Hanoi, VietnamFaculty of Economic Mathematics, National Economics University, Hanoi, VietnamFaculty of Economic Mathematics, National Economics University, Hanoi, VietnamDepartment of Electronic Engineering, Ming Chi University of Technology, New Taipei City, TaiwanWhite blood cell (WBC) recognition is still a challenging problem because of the high variability and complexity of blood cell images. Blood cell images can vary in quality, resolution, contrast, illumination, staining, and background. Blood cells can also vary in shape, size, color, texture, and distribution. Moreover, blood cells can overlap, cluster, or deform, making them challenging to segment and identify. This paper proposed an efficient automatic illumination compensation algorithm using singular value decomposition in the cosine domain (CSVDC) to enhance WBC images in the preprocessing step. Firstly, the WBC color image is split into three color channels and then mapped to the frequency domain using the discrete cosine transform (DCT) to get their DCT coefficient matrices. Next, the compensation coefficients are constructed based on the DC terms and DCT coefficient matrices’ most significant singular values. The DCT coefficient matrices are then linearly adjusted by multiplying with the compensation coefficients. Finally, three color channels are reconstructed using the inverted DCT to get the enhanced WBC image. Experimental results for the four most common PBC_dataset_normal_DIB, Raabin-WBC, BCCD, and Munich AML Morphology datasets using state-of-art deep learning models, including VGG16, GoogLeNet, and RestNet, illustrate the effectiveness of the CSVDC algorithm. In particular, on the PBC_dataset_normal_DIB dataset, when using the ResNet, the proposed enhanced WBC images have a higher average recognition rate compared to the original, ASVDF, ASVDW, and AHOSVD images by 3.82%, 2.69%, 11.37%, and 8.62%, respectively. Experimental results show that our method dramatically improves deep learning-based WBC recognition accuracy.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10756654/White blood celldiscrete cosine transformssingular value decompositionimage enhancementillumination compensationdeep learning
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DCT-Based White Blood Cell Image Enhancement for Recognition Using Deep Learning
IEEE Access
White blood cell
discrete cosine transforms
singular value decomposition
image enhancement
illumination compensation
deep learning
title DCT-Based White Blood Cell Image Enhancement for Recognition Using Deep Learning
title_full DCT-Based White Blood Cell Image Enhancement for Recognition Using Deep Learning
title_fullStr DCT-Based White Blood Cell Image Enhancement for Recognition Using Deep Learning
title_full_unstemmed DCT-Based White Blood Cell Image Enhancement for Recognition Using Deep Learning
title_short DCT-Based White Blood Cell Image Enhancement for Recognition Using Deep Learning
title_sort dct based white blood cell image enhancement for recognition using deep learning
topic White blood cell
discrete cosine transforms
singular value decomposition
image enhancement
illumination compensation
deep learning
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10756654/
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