简介:Theresultsofautomaticclassificationoftheperipheralbloodleukocytecategoriesarepresented.Thisclassificationwasperformedbymeansofdigitalimageprocessingandpatternrecognitiontechniques.Inthispaper,anautomaticmicroscopecellularanalysissystemforthispurposeisgivenandasetofalgorithmsforleukocyterecognitions,whichincludesindividualcell’sdetection,scenesegmentation,featureextraction,selectionandclassifierdesign,isproposed.Asaresultofteston3000leukoeytesdigitizeddirectlyfrom21peripheralbloodsmears,92percentofthemwereclassifiedcorrectlyinthissystem.Thecategorieswerebandneutrophils,seg-mentedneutrophils,monocytes,eosinophils,basophilsandlyrnphoeytes.