Haryati Jaafar
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Haryati Jaafar
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Jaafar, Haryati
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Jaafar, Haryati
Jaafar, H.
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ILC-1943-2023

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    Improvising non-uniform illumination and low contrast images of soil transmitted helminths image using contrast enhancement techniques
    ( 2021-01-01)
    Norhanis Ayunie Ahmad Khairudin
    ;
    Aimi Salihah Abdul Nasir
    ;
    Lim Chee Chin
    ;
    Haryati Jaafar
    ;
    Mohamed Z.
    Image enhancement plays an important role in image processing and computer vision. It is used to enhance the visual appearance in an image and also to convert the image suited to the requirement needed for image processing. In this paper, image enhancement is used to produce a better image by enhancing the image quality and highlighting the morphological features of the helminth eggs. Result obtained from enhancement is prepared for segmentation and classification process. The helminth eggs used in this paper are Ascaris Lumbricoides Ova (ALO) and Trichuris Trichiura Ova (TTO). In this study, several enhancement techniques have been performed on 100 images of ALO and TTO which have been captured under three different illuminations: normal, under-exposed and over-exposed images. The techniques used are global contrast stretching, limit contrast, linear contrast stretching, modified global contrast stretching, modified linear contrast stretching, partial contrast and reduce haze. Based on results obtained from these techniques, modified linear contrast stretching and modified global contrast stretching are able to equalize the lighting in the non-uniform illumination images of helminth eggs. Both techniques are suitable to be used on non-uniform illumination images and also able to improve the contrast in the image without affecting or removing the key features in ALO and TTO images as compared to the other techniques. Hence, the resultant images would become useful for parasitologist in analyzing helminth eggs.
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    A fast and efficient segmentation of soil-transmitted helminths through various color models and k-means clustering
    ( 2021-01-01)
    Norhanis Ayunie Ahmad Khairudin
    ;
    Aimi Salihah Abdul Nasir
    ;
    Lim Chee Chin
    ;
    Haryati Jaafar
    ;
    Mohamed Z.
    Soil-transmitted helminths (STH) are one of the causes of health problems in children and adults. Based on a large number of helminthiases cases that have been diagnosed, a productive system is required for the identification and classification of STH in ensuring the health of the people is guaranteed. This paper presents a fast and efficient method to segment two types of STH; Ascaris Lumbricoides Ova (ALO) and Trichuris Trichiura Ova (TTO) based on the analysis of various color models. Firstly, the ALO and TTO images are enhanced using modified global contrast stretching (MGCS) technique, followed by the extraction of color components from various color models. In this study, segmentation based on various color models such as RGB, HSV, L*a*b and NSTC have been used to identify, simplify and extract the particular color needed. Then, k-means clustering is used to segment the color component images into three clusters region which are target (helminth eggs), unwanted and background regions. Then, additional processing steps are applied on the segmented images to remove the unwanted region from the images and to restore the information of the images. The proposed techniques have been evaluated on 100 images of ALO and TTO. Results obtained show saturation component of HSV color model is the most suitable color component to be used with the k-means clustering technique on ALO and TTO images which achieve segmentation performance of 99.06% for accuracy, 99.31% for specificity and 95.06% for sensitivity.
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