Automatic Lane Extraction in Hemoglobin and Serum Protein Electrophoresis Using Image Processing

Subject Areas : B. Computer Systems Organization

Samira Khodabakhshi ¹ (Department of computer engineering, Shahrood university of technology, shahrood, Iran)
Hamid Hassanpour ² (Department of computer engineering, Shahrood university of technology, shahrood, Iran)

Received: 2013-05-08 Accepted : 2013-05-08 Published : 2012-11-01

Keywords: electrophoresis, Lane Extraction, Otsu, Savitzky-Golay,

Abstract :

Image analysis is an image processing technique that aims to extract features or information from images. Image analysis in medicine has a special place because is a basis for disease diagnosis for physicians. Electrophoresis is a laboratory separating technique. Electrophoresis images are created during the electrophoresis process. Serum protein and hemoglobin electrophoresis test are the most common test in Laboratory. Each lane represents a patient's blood sample. Lane extraction is one of the most important steps in analyzing of electrophoresis images. This paper, proposed automatic lane extraction method based on Otsu thresholding and Savitzky-Golay smoothing. The results show the proposed method has 98% accurate.