Malaria parasite detection in peripheral blood images

BMVC 2006 - Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 347-356

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; DETECTORS; DISEASES; GRAPHIC METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY DENSITY; HISTOGRAM METHOD; K-NEAREST NEIGHBOURS; LIGHT MICROSCOPES; MALARIA PARASITE; PERFORMANCE COMPARISON; PERIPHERAL BLOOD; SHAPE MEASUREMENTS;

PIXELS;

EID: 84898037066     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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