Parasite detection and identification for automated thin blood film malaria diagnosis

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 21-32

  Tek, F Boray ^a   Dempster, Andrew G ^b   Kale, Izzet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Area granulometry; Blood cell image; Imbalanced learning; K nearest neighbour rule; Malaria diagnosis; Microscope image analysis; Parasitemia

Indexed keywords

BLOOD CELL IMAGES; GRANULOMETRIES; IMBALANCED LEARNING; K-NEAREST NEIGHBOURS; MICROSCOPE IMAGES; PARASITEMIA;

CELLS; DETECTORS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIFE CYCLE;

BLOOD;

EID: 71549121041     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: 1090235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2009.08.003     Document Type: Article

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