Estimating malaria parasitaemia from blood smear images

9th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, 2006, ICARCV '06

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Halim, Silvia ^a   Bretschneider, Timo R ^a   Li, Yikun ^a   Preiser, Peter R ^b   Kuss, Claudia ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Illumination compensation; Malaria; Parasitaemia; Pattern matching; RBC

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; BLOOD; CELLS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PERSONNEL TRAINING;

ILLUMINATION COMPENSATION; MALARIA; PARASITAEMIA;

MALARIA CONTROL;

EID: 34547226472     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICARCV.2006.345381     Document Type: Conference Paper

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