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Table 3 Comparison of average execution time with other methods of 12 testing images

From: Automatic screening of cervical cells using block image processing

 

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