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identified. For Figure 5 (b), after applying RGB based
local contrast stretching, this will result on the
elimination of all cytoplasm blast (abnormal white blood
cell). However, this result does not appear on Figure 5 (a).
Based on Figure 5 (a), by applying S component from HSI
color space seems to overcome the problem.
Blast 2
(a) Blast 3
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Blast 1
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Figure 3. (a) S component result image
(b) S component histogram
Blast 3
Based on Figure 4 (b), the L CS histogram that Blast 1
(a)
(a)
(b)
Figure 4. (a) Les result image
(b) LeS histogram (b)
Figure 6.(a) Ghost Image for HSI color space
Based on Figure 5 (a) and 5 (b), the blast (abnormal (b) Ghost Image for RGB color space
white blood cells) in both images can be easily seen and
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Results of using pixel subtraction technique between almost similar pixel values and shape to original blasts.
original image in Figure 2 and segmented image in The results also show that the histogram is also useful to
Figures 5 (a) and 5 (b) are respectively shown in the select the threshold value using HSI color space. For
Figures 6 (a) and 6 (b). The successfully segmented blasts future work, the result of this paper can be used as the
appeared as a white color. Therefore, Figure 6 (a) basis for extracting the features from the blood slide
indicates that the shape of the blasts resulted from HSI images.
color space yields almost similar shape to Figure 2
whereas the shape from Figure 6 (b) is quite dissimilar. 5. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Meanwhile, Table 1 below shows that the selected pixel
value for original blast (refer to the selected blast) from The author is gratefully acknowledged and thanks the
Figure 2, blast (refer to the selected blast) after applying S team members of leukemia research and University
component base on HSI color space from Figure 5 (a) and Science of Malaysia (US M). We also like to acknowledge
blast (refer to the selected blast) after applying RGB color Malaysia Government for providing Fundamental
space base on local contrast method from Figure 5 (b). Research Grant Scheme (Grant No. 9003 00129), under
The resultant image shown in Figure 5 (a) indicates that Ministry of Higher Education.
this method was successfully produced similar pixel
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