Segmentation of malaria parasites in peripheral blood smear images

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1361-1364

  Makkapati, Vishnu V ^a   Rao, Raghuveer M ^b  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^b Rochester Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatin dot detection; Malaria diagnosis; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

BLOOD SAMPLES; BLOOD SMEARS; CHROMATIN DOT DETECTION; HSV COLOR SPACES; HUMAN ERRORS; MALARIA DIAGNOSIS; MALARIA PARASITE; MICROSCOPE IMAGES; PERIPHERAL BLOOD; RED BLOOD CELL; SEGMENTATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ACOUSTICS; BLOOD; CHROMOSOMES; DIAGNOSIS; ERRORS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 70349226822     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2009.4959845     Document Type: Conference Paper

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