A SURVEY ON VARIOUS APPROACHES FOR SEGMENTATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF WHITE BLOOD CELLS

Traditionally, White Blood Cell identification is performed by experienced pathologists manually. Peripheral blood smear analysis is a laboratory procedure that helps in diagnosis of various pathological disorders such as malaria, anemia, leukemia, etc. This process is performed at a microscopic level and therefore is required to be precise. Manually performing microscopic evaluation is a challenging task. This task can be automated with the help of computer-aided systems. This work discusses various methods being used in a variety of cellular image segmentation and classification tasks with the field of the survey being concentrated on leukocyte segmentation and classification.