Ijettcs 2014 12 27 1
Ijettcs 2014 12 27 1
Ijettcs 2014 12 27 1
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Abstract
The impact of digital image processing is increasing by
the day for its use in the medical and research areas.
Proper identification of diseases is very crucial step for
curing disease. In many cases microscopic analysis of
peripheral blood samples by medical practitioner is an
important test in the procedures for the diagnosis of any
blood related disease and accurate diagnosis of disease is
crucial for curing and controlling that disease. Some of
the developed expert systems diagnosing various diseases
using digital images of blood samples were prone to a
variety of types of noise which affect image acquisition
process that result in pixel values that do not reflect the
true intensities of the real scene. The presence of noise in
an image could result into wrong and incorrect
information which could have possible consequence on the
given image. Hence there is need for proper and adequate
removal of noise during processing of images so as to
obtain valuable and important information necessary for
classification and diagnosis. In this paper, a comparison of
performance of three selected noise removal algorithms
(Median filter Ordinary filter and Weiner filter) was
carried out on sickle cell images. The results revealed that
the median filter showed high performance accuracy than
the other filter types.
Keyword:- Image processing, Sickle Cell, Median filter,
Ordinary filter, Weiner filter
1. Introduction
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a blood disorder characterized
by sickle hemoglobin (Hariharan and Aruna, 2014). Over
3,000,000 babies worldwide are born each year with these
disorders. Patients suffering from this disease experience
acute pain episodes and infections in addition to other
chronic conditions like anemia, cardiac, pulmonary, renal
and brain complications. Normal red blood cells are discshaped and look like doughnuts without holes in the
center. They move easily through your blood vessels. Red
blood cells contain an iron-rich protein called hemoglobin
(HEE-muh-glow-bin). This protein carries oxygen from
the lungs to the rest of the body. Sickle cells contain
abnormal hemoglobin called sickle hemoglobin or
hemoglobin S. Sickle hemoglobin causes the cells to
develop a sickle, or crescent, shape. Sickle cells are stiff
and sticky. They tend to block blood flow in the blood
vessels of the limbs and organs. Blocked blood flow can
cause pain and organ damage. It can also raise the risk for
infection. The disease is inherited in an autosomal
2. Related Work
In general, any kind of magnetic resonance image analysis
starts with an image enhancement process. The choice of
enhancement technique has a direct impact on the final
result, since the image quality has great impact on
subsequent analysis. In the literature, however, relatively
little attention has been given to this pre-processing step.
Neha and Karaulia (2014) provided a quantitative
evaluation of the performance of different de-noising
techniques for MRI images using the median filter,
Gaussian filter, Max filter, Min filter and Arithmetic
Mean filter. Niraj, Gerald and Arcangelo (2012) worked
on evaluation of image enhancement techniques for
Capillary Imaging. Youlian and Cheng (2012) proposed
an Improved Median Filtering Algorithm for Image Noise
Reduction. In this paper, a comparison of performance of
three selected noise removal algorithms (Median filter
Ordinary filter and Weiner filter) was carried out on sickle
cell images.
(3)
Where v2 is the noise variance if the noise is not given
Step 5: Use local mean to create new image.
4. System Implementation
This involves loading the image anywhere in the computer
to get the image. The first stage of any image processing
is getting the image. After the image has been gotten, the
various tasks which involve processing the image,
analyzing the image can now be performed. It is also
important to note that if image has not been gotten the
processing cannot take place, therefore rendering the work
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