Extraction of Nucleolus Candidate Zone in White Blood Cells of Peripheral Blood Smear Images Using Curvelet Transform

<table>A comparison between candidate regions detected by pathologist (3052 pixels) and extracted area by our algorithm (3611 pixels). (a): extracted nucleoli by expert; (b): the results of our algorithm for nucleolus detection.</table>

Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine

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Figure 18: Extraction of Nucleolus Candidate Zone in White Blood Cells of Peripheral Blood Smear Images Using Curvelet Transform 