Abnormal red blood cells detection using adaptive neuro-fuzzy system

Features like size, shape, and volume of red blood cells are important factors in diagnosing related blood disorders such as iron deficiency and anemia. This paper proposes a method to detect abnormality in red blood cells using cell microscopic images. Adaptive local thresholding and bounding box methods are used to extract inner and outer diameters of red cells. An adaptive network-based fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) is used to classify blood samples to normal and abnormal. Accuracy of the proposed method and area under ROC curve are 96.6% and 0.9950 respectively.