Lim Chee Chin
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Lim Chee Chin
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Lim, Chee Chin
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  • Publication
    Analysis of the performance of SLIC super-pixel toward pre-segmentation of soil-transmitted helminth
    (AIP Publishing, 2023)
    Loke Siew Wen
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    Lim Chee Chin
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    Aimi Salihah Abdul Nasir
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    Norhanis Ayunie Ahmad Khairudin
    ;
    Chong Yen Fook
    ;
    Mohd Yusoff Mashor
    ;
    Zeehaida Mohamed
    Soil-Transmitted Helminth (STH) infections are one of the most severe health issues in the world including Malaysia and frequently happened in an unsanitary environment within the children group. The helminth infections are diagnosed by inspecting the faeces samples manually through light microscope. However, the manual inspection method to diagnose the helminth egg is a time-consuming and challenging process especially when are huge number of samples. To increase the efficiency and accuracy of the diagnosis, an analysis of super-pixel segmentation with different parameter adjustments on four different species was carried out. This work described a Simple Linear Iterative Clustering (SLIC) super-pixel algorithm that uses different parameter settings to explore more parasites image features for a better segmentation process in the future and to analyse the effect of different SLIC parameter settings towards the pre-segmentation process. There is total 80 images collected from the four helminth egg species which are Ascaris Lumbricoides Ova (ALO), Enterobius Vermicularis Ova (EVO), Hookworm Ova (HWO) and Trichuris Trichiura Ova (TTO). The proposed approach is divided into three steps. First, the images with various lighting conditions are enhanced by the partial contrast stretching (PCS) technique. The simple linear iterative clustering (SLIC) super-pixel algorithm was implemented to the enhanced images as a pre-segmentation algorithm to form super-pixel images. Lastly, image quality assessment will be performed on the SLIC images. The SLIC parameter compactness of super-pixel, m of 5 and number of super-pixels, k of 1000 was selected because they generate the greatest PSNR value, indicating that this combination of parameters could produce high-quality images. In future, a more in-depth analysis of the parameter k and m, which impacts the form of each super-pixel and the pre-segmentation process, might improve the recommended approach.
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    Investigation on Body Mass Index Prediction from Face Images
    ( 2021-03-01)
    Chong Yen Fook
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    Lim Chee Chin
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    Vikneswaran Vijean
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    Lim Whey Teen
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    Hasimah Ali
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    Aimi Salihah Abdul Nasir
    Body mass index is a measurement of obesity based on measured height and weight of a person and classified as underweight, normal, overweight and obese. This paper reviews the investigation and evaluation of the body mass index prediction from face images. Human faces contain a number of cues that are able to be a subject of a study. Hence, face image is used to predict BMI especially for rural folks, patients that are paralyzed or severely ill patient who unable to undergoes basic BMI measurement and for emergency medical service. In this framework, 3 stages will be implemented including image pre-processing such as face detection that uses the technique of Viola-Jones, iris detection, image enhancement and image resizing, face feature extraction that use facial metric and classification that consists of 3 types of machine learning approaches which are artificial neural network, Support Vector Machine and k-nearest neighbor to analyze the performance of the classification. From the results obtained, artificial neural network is the best classifier for BMI prediction system with the highest recognition rate of 95.50% by using the data separation of 10% of testing data and 90% of training data. In a conclusion, this system will help to advance the study of social aspect based on the body weight.
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    Fast k-means clustering algorithm for malaria detection in thick blood smear
    ( 2020-11-09)
    Aris T.A.
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    Aimi Salihah Abdul Nasir
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    Lim Chee Chin
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    Haryati Jaafar
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    Mohamed Z.
    Lots of people all over the world is threaten by a popular blood infection illness that is called as malaria. According to this fact, immediate diagnosis tests are essential to avoid the malaria parasites from expanding in every part of the body. Malaria detection is based on parasitic count process on thick blood smear samples. Anyhow, this mechanism consist the chances of misinterpretation of parasites on behalf to human flaws. Thus, this research objective is to investigate the segmentation performance for improving malaria detection in thick blood smear images through fast k-means clustering algorithm on various color models. In this research, fast kmeans clustering is used because of its advantage which is no need to retrain cluster center that causes time taken to train the image cluster centers is reduce. Meanwhile, different color models have been utilized in order to identify the most relevant color model that obviously highlight the parasites. Five varied color models namely RGB, XYZ, HSV, YUV and CMY are selected and 15 color components namely R, G, B, X, Y, Z, H, S, V, Y, U, V, C, M and Y component have been derived with the aim to discover which color component is the topnotch for malaria parasites detection. In general, around 100 thick blood smear images have been tested in this study and the outcomes reveal that the best segmentation performance is segmentation through R component of RGB with 99.81% accuracy.
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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
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    Aimi Salihah Abdul Nasir
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    Lim Chee Chin
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    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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    Color constancy analysis approach for color standardization on malaria thick and thin blood smear images
    ( 2021-01-01)
    Thaqifah Ahmad Aris
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    Aimi Salihah Abdul Nasir
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    Haryati Jaafar
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    Lim Chee Chin
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    Mohamed Z.
    Malaria is an extensively prevalent blood infection, the most severe and widespread parasitic disease that stirring millions of people in the world. Currently, microscopy diagnosis still the most widely used method for malaria diagnosis. However, this procedure contains the probability of miscalculation of parasites due to human error. Computerized system by using image processing is recognized as a quick and easy ways to analyze a lot of blood samples. However, because of the non-standard preparation of the blood slides which producing color varieties in different slides will result on low quality images. Hence, it is difficult to identify the existence of malaria parasites as well as observing its morphological characteristics to recognize malaria parasites. Therefore, this paper aims to analyze the standardization performance between six types of color constancy algorithms namely, gray world (GW), white patch (WP), modified white patch (MWP), progressive hybrid (PH), shades of gray (SoG) and gray edge (GE) on both thick and thin blood smear malaria images of P. falciparum and P. vivax species. Six types of color constancy algorithms standardization performance are analysed by using quantitative measure namely, peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR), normalized absolute error (NAE), mean square error (MSE) and root mean square error (RMSE). Based on the qualitative and quantitative findings, the results show that SoG algorithm is the best color constancy as compared to others proposed color constancy. SoG algorithm has achieved the highest PSNR and lowest NAE, MSE and RMSE values, thus proved that the quality of malaria images have been improved.
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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
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    Aimi Salihah Abdul Nasir
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    Lim Chee Chin
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    Haryati Jaafar
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    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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    Image segmentation using k-means clustering and otsu's thresholding with classification method for human intestinal parasites
    ( 2020-07-09)
    Khairudin Norhanis Ayunie Ahmad
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    Rohaizad Nurfatin Shamimi
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    Aimi Salihah Abdul Nasir
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    Lim Chee Chin
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    Haryati Jaafar
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    Mohamed Z.
    Helminth is one of the intestinal parasites that may cause harm and death to human. It is very important to have a system that is capable of assisting the technologist in investigating of fecal samples. In this paper, an automatic classification process is proposed to detect the different types of helminth eggs from fecal samples by using image processing technique. 50 samples of Ascaris Lumbricoides Ova (ALO) and Trichuris Trichiura Ova (TTO) are tested. First, these images undergo partial contrast stretching (PCS) technique to enhance the target images. Next, RGB and HSV color model have been compared in order to identify which color component is able to ease the segmentation process. S component shows a good results with high contrast between the target and the unwanted region. Then, Otsu's thresholding and k-means clustering are compared in order to to select the most suitable image processing method to be used in classification procedure. k-means clustering shows a better results compared to Otsu's thresholding. In classification process, area and size have been chosen as the feature to extract for the classification. The ratio for successfully detected ALO species is 84% while TTO is 76%.
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