Review Article

Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia

Table 2

Comparison of different acute lymphoblastic leukaemia detection methods.

Authors, yearMethodDatasetPreprocessingSegmentationFeatures extractionClassificationPerformance%

Mishra et al., 2017Gray level cooccurrence matrix and random forest based acute lymphoblastic leukaemia detection [13]Public ALL-IDB 1 (108 images)Histogram equalization, Weiner filteringSobel, Perwitt, Marker based watershed segmentationGLCM (gray level cooccurrence matrix), PPCA (Probabilistic Principal Component Analysis)RF (random forest)Accuracy 96.29%

Karthikeyan and Poornima, 2017Microscopic image segmentation using fuzzy -means for leukaemia diagnosis [14]Google (19 images)Histogram equalization, Median filter-means clustering, fuzzy -means clustering algorithmGabor texture extraction methodSVM (support vector machine)Accuracy 90%

Rawat et al., 2017Classification of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia using hybrid hierarchical classifiers [15]Public ALL-IDB 2 (260 images)Histogram equalization, Order statistic filterGlobal thresholding, morphological openingGeometrical features, chromatic features, statistical texture featuresHybrid hierarchical classifiers kNN, PNN, SVM, SSVM, and ANFISAccuracy 99.2%

Joshi et al., 2013White blood cells segmentation and classification to detect acute leukaemia [16]Public ALL-IDB 1 (108 images)Contrast Stretching and Histogram equalizationOtsu’s threshold methodShape features (area, perimeter, and circularity)KNN (-nearest neighbor)Accuracy 93%

Putzu and Ruberto, 2013White blood cells identification and classification from leukaemia blood image [17]Public ALL-IDB 1 (108 images)Histogram equalizationTriangle threshold method using Zack algorithmShape based features (area, perimeter, etc.), GLCM featuresSVM (support vector machine)Accuracy 92%

Li et al., 2016Segmentation of white blood cell from acute lymphoblastic leukaemia images using dual-threshold method [18]Public ALL-IDB (130 images)Global Contrast StretchingDual-threshold segmentationBinarization, morphological erosion, median filtering (postprocessing)Not mentionedAccuracy 98%

Amin et al., 2015Recognition of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia cells in microscopic images using -means clustering and support vector machine classifier [19]Isfahan Al-Zahra and Omid Hospital pathology laboratories (146 ALL images and 166 lymphocytes images)Histogram equalization-means clusteringShape based features (area, perimeter, solidity, and eccentricity), histogram-based features (mean, standard deviation skewness, entropy, etc.)SVM (support vector machine)Accuracy 95.6%

Savita Dumyan, 2017An enhanced technique for lymphoblastic cancer detection using artificial neural network [20]Blood sample images (36 images)Histogram equalizationImage binarization, canny edge detection techniqueShape based features, texture features, statistical features, moment invariantsArtificial neural network (ANN)Accuracy 97.8%

Chatap and Shibu, 2014Analysis of blood samples for counting leukaemia cells using support vector machine and nearest neighbour [21]Public ALL-IDB 1 (108 images) and ALL-IDB 2 (260 images)Histogram Equalization, Contrast StretchingOtsu’s threshold methodShape based features (area, perimeter, and circularity)-nearest neighbor (KNN)Accuracy 93%

Amin et al., 2015Recognition of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia cells in microscopic images using -means clustering and support vector machine classifier [22]Isfahan Al-Zahra and Omid Hospital pathology laboratories (312 images)Histogram Equalization, Linear Contrast Stretching-means clusteringGeometric or shape based (area, perimeter, convex, and solidity), first- and second-order statistical featuresSVM (support vector machine)Accuracy 97% (blast and normal), 95.6% (subtypes classification)

Patel and Mishra, 2015Automated leukaemia detection using microscopic images [23]Not mentionedMedian Filtering, Wiener Filtering-means clusteringColor features, geometric, texture, and statistical featuresSVM (support vector machine)Accuracy 93.57%

MoradiAmin et al., 2016Computer aided detection and classification of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia cell subtypes based on microscopic image analysis [24]Isfahan Al-Zahra and Omid Hospital pathology laboratories (312 images)Histogram equalizationFuzzy -means, watershed algorithmGeometric or shape based (area, perimeter, convex, and solidity), first- and second-order statistical featuresSVM (support vector machine)Accuracy 97.52%

Mohapatra and Patra, 2010Automated cell nucleus segmentation and acute leukaemia detection in blood microscopic images [25]University of Virginia, Ispat General Hospital, Rourkela, Odisha (108 images)Selective median filtering, Unsharp Masking-means clustering, nearest neighborFractal dimension, shape features including contour signature and texture, color featuresSVM (support vector machine)Accuracy 95%

Mohapatra et al., 2011Fuzzy based blood image segmentation for automated leukaemia detection [26]University of Virginia, Ispat General Hospital, Rourkela, Odisha (108 images)Selective median filtering, Unsharp MaskingGustafson Kessel clustering, nearest neighborFractal dimension, shape features including contour signature and texture, color featuresSVM (support vector machine)Accuracy 93%

Mohapatra et al., 2014An ensemble classifier system for early diagnosis of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in blood microscopic images [27]Ispat General Hospital, Rourkela, Odisha (150 images)Contrast enhancement, Selective median filteringShadowed -means (SCM) clusteringFractal dimension, shape features including contour signature and texture, color featuresEnsemble method (Naive Bayesian, -nearest neighbor, multilayer perceptron, radial basis functional neural network, support vector machines)Accuracy 94.73%

Samadzadehaghdam et al., 2015Enhanced recognition of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia cells in microscopic images based on feature reduction using principle component analysis [28]Isfahan Al-Zahra and Omid Hospital pathology laboratories (21 Images)Histogram equalizationFuzzy -means, watershed algorithmGeometric or shape based (area, perimeter, convex, and solidity), statistical featuresSVM (support vector machine)Accuracy 96.33%

Putzua et al., 2017Leucocyte classification for leukaemia detection using image processing techniques [29]Public ALL-IDB 1 (108 images) and ALL-IDB 2 (260 images)Histogram equalization and contrast stretchingZack algorithmShape features, color features, texture featuresSVM (support vector machine)Accuracy 92%

Sadeghian et al., 2009A framework for white blood cell segmentation in microscopic blood images using digital image processing [30]L2 type ALL blood images (20 images)Gaussian filter, Standard deviationCanny edge detection technique, Zack algorithmNot mentionedNot mentionedAccuracy 92% (nucleus segmentation), 78% (cytoplasm segmentation)

Mohapatra and Patra, 2010Automated leukaemia detection using Hausdorff dimension in blood microscopic images [31]University of Virginia, Ispat General Hospital, Rourkela, Odisha (108 images)Selective median filtering, Unsharp masking-means clusteringHausdorff dimension, shape features, color featuresSVM (support vector machine)Accuracy 95%

Mohapatra et al., 2010Image analysis of blood microscopic images for acute leukaemia detection [32]University of Virginia, Ispat General Hospital, Rourkela, Odisha (108 images)Selective median filtering, Unsharp maskingFuzzy -means clustering, nearest neighborFractal features (Hausdorff dimension), shape features, contour signature, color, texture featuresSVM (support vector machine)Accuracy 95%