Research Article

Automated Cell Selection Using Support Vector Machine for Application to Spectral Nanocytology

Table 1

Description of features used for classifier development.

Type of featureNumber of features

Size and shape: describing the shape of the object8
Histogram features: describing the grey scale distribution 11
Color: describing the staining color of the sample9
Texture features 1: describing the general characteristics of grey scale texture35
Texture features 2: describing textures based on Fourier transform and models30
Topology: describing the surface morphology7