What is Leukemia

This chapter gives an analysis of various methodologies for detecting cancer cells through image processing techniques. The challenges during such detections are over-segmentation and computational complexities. Therefore, the algorithms dealing with such problems are analyzed in this chapter. In these algorithms, a watershed and setting up threshold are helpful to overcome segmentation issues. A support vector machine is discussed to detect subtypes of pneumoconiosis for disjointing segments of lungs. For finding lung cancer cells, a segmentation weighted fuzzy probabilistic-based clustering has been used. Multiple variants of thresholding along with classifiers are proposed to detect lungs and liver cancer. Other than that, noise-removal, feature extraction and watershed are used to detect breast cancer. For leukemia, a bimodal thresholding over enhanced images of cytoplasm and nuclei regions has been discussed. kNN classifier, k-mean clustering, and feed-forward neural networks have also been discussed. Results from these techniques vary from 60%-100% depending on the proposed methodology.