Local Binary Pattern for automatic detection of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) is caused due to increase in number of abnormal lymphocyte cells in blood or bone marrow. This paper presents a methodology for automatic detection of the abnormal lymphocytes in a given image of the blood sample. We have used Local Binary Pattern (LBP) features for classifying the lymphocyte cell as blast or normal. LBP texture features of blood nucleus are investigated for the detection of ALL. We have also used shape features for classification and a comparative analysis of both the features is performed. It is seen that the LBP features provide reasonably good accuracy in classification.