Automatic recognition of the blood cells of myelogenous leukemia using SVM

Abstract

The paper presents the system for automatic recognition of the leukemia blast cells on the basis of the image of the bone marrow aspirate. The recognizing system uses support vector machine (SVM) as the classifier and exploits the features of the image of the blood cells related to the texture, geometry and histograms. The results presented in the paper are concerned with the features generation and selection in order to get the best results of recognition. The results of numerical experiments of recognition of 17 classes of blood cells of myelogenous leukemia are presented and discussed.