Application of colored image analysis to bone marrow cell recognition.

A color processing procedure bases on the essential features of human perception of colors is presented. It allows the computation of colors in terms of the luminance, the hue and the saturation at every point of an image. Such color processing was used for segmentation and feature extraction of human bone marrow cell images acquired through successive red, green and blue broad-band filters. The efficiency of the luminance, saturation and hue parameters in discriminating cell types is illustrated and discussed.