An outline of the system for computer-assisted diagnosis based on binary erythrocytes shapes

The paper presents some initial results of the work on the system for Computer-Assisted Diagnosis (CAD) of diseases involving erythrocytes (e.g. anaemia). The approach is based on binary shapes of red blood cells (RBCs), extracted from digital microscopic images. This comes from the fact that some diseases have their origin in deformation of RBCs shapes, what makes the proper delivering of oxygen to body tissues impossible. In result the blood circulation is non-regulated. The approach under development was examined and implemented in form of the prototype in Matlab environment.