Automated and unsupervised detection of malarial parasites in microscopic images

Malaria Journal

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Purwar, Yashasvi ^a   Shah, Sirish L ^a   Clarke, Gwen ^b   Almugairi, Areej ^b   Muehlenbachs, Atis ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b ALBERTA HEALTH SERVICES   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD SMEAR; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; GIEMSA STAIN; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE PROCESSING; LABORATORY AUTOMATION; MALARIA; MICROSCOPY; PARASITE EXAMINATION; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; SCREENING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; AUTOMATION; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURES; ECONOMICS; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; PARASITEMIA; PARASITOLOGY; STATISTICS;

AUTOMATION; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALARIA; MASS SCREENING; MICROSCOPY; PARASITEMIA; PARASITOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 83255164919     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-10-364     Document Type: Article

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