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ArticleMedical & biological engineering & computing2014

Feature selection and classification of leukocytes using random forest.

Mukesh Saraswat, K V Arya

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Article in Medical & biological engineering & computing, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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  7. Combining DC-GAN with ResNet for blood cell image classification.Medical & biological engineering & computing · 2020
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  10. Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia.Computational and mathematical methods in medicine · 2018
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Mukesh SaraswatABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior, 474010, India, saraswatmukesh@gmail.com.
K V Arya

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In automatic segmentation of leukocytes from the complex morphological background of tissue section images, a vast number of artifacts/noise are also extracted causing large amount of multivariate data generation. This multivariate data degrades the performance of a classifier to discriminate between leukocytes and artifacts/noise. However, the selection of prominent features plays an important role in reducing the computational complexity and increasing the performance of the classifier as compared to a high-dimensional features space. Therefore, this paper introduces a novel Gini importance-based binary random forest feature selection method. Moreover, the random forest classifier is used to classify the extracted objects into artifacts, mononuclear cells, and polymorphonuclear cells. The experimental results establish that the proposed method effectively eliminates the irrelevant features, maintaining the high classification accuracy as compared to other feature reduction methods.

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Decision TreesAlgorithmsAnimalsImage Processing, Computer-AssistedLeukocytesMicePattern Recognition, AutomatedPhotomicrographySkinSupport Vector Machine

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