Table 3.
Comparison of average execution time with other methods of 12 testing images
| Time (s) | |
|---|---|
| Step of our method | |
| Image resize, block-processing, background-removal | 0.701 |
| Feature selection | 1.410 |
| Classification | 0.025 |
| Total | 2.136 |
| Step of method in [16] | |
| Background extraction using Otsu | 2.845 |
| Candidate cell nuclei detection | 62.391 |
| Total | 65.236 |
| Step of method in [4] | |
| Background extraction using top-hat and thresholding | 3.699 |
| Segmentation of cells using a multi-scale hierarchical method | >100 |
| Total | >100 |
| Step of method in [37] | |
| Background extraction using MF K-means | 19.737 |
| Edge enhancement and GVF Snake | |
| Total | >19.737 |