Blood Cell Images Segmentation using Deep Learning Semantic Segmentation

Abstract

Segmentation of red blood cells (RBCs) and white blood cells (WBCs) in peripheral blood smear images plays an important role in the evaluation and diagnosis a vast of disorders, including infection, leukemia, and some types of cancer. Generally, various image processing techniques are used to enhance the quality of images before the segmentation step. Therefore, the segmentation of blood cells is still a challenge. However, in this research, deep learning semantic segmentation - cutting-edge technology is applied for segmentation red blood cells and white blood cells in blood smear images. The experiment result shows that the global accuracy of our model yielded 89.45%. Besides, the accuracy of the segmentation of white blood cells, red blood cells, and the background of blood smear image reached 94.93%, 91.11%, and 87.32%, respectively.