Image Analysis Approach for Development of a Decision Support System for Detection of Malaria Parasites in Thin Blood Smear Images.

This paper describes development of a decision support system for diagnosis of malaria using color image analysis. A hematologist has to study around 100 to 300 microscopic views of Giemsa-stained thin blood smear images to detect malaria parasites, evaluate the extent of infection and to identify t...

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Publicado en:Journal of Digital Imaging Vol. 25; no. 4; pp. 542 - 550
Autores principales: Prasad, Keerthana, Winter, Jan, Bhat, Udayakrishna, Acharya, Raviraja, Prabhu, Gopalakrishna
Formato: algorithm pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Springer Nature Aug2012
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          Prasad, Keerthana
          Winter, Jan
          Bhat, Udayakrishna
          Acharya, Raviraja
          Prabhu, Gopalakrishna
        affil: Manipal Centre for Information Science, Manipal University, Manipal 576104 India
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          Malaria Diagnosis
          Decision Support Techniques
          Telemedicine
          Image Processing, Computer Assisted
          False Positive Results
          Microscopy
          Color
          Algorithms
          Spearman's Rank Correlation Coefficient
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      ab: This paper describes development of a decision support system for diagnosis of malaria using color image analysis. A hematologist has to study around 100 to 300 microscopic views of Giemsa-stained thin blood smear images to detect malaria parasites, evaluate the extent of infection and to identify the species of the parasite. The proposed algorithm picks up the suspicious regions and detects the parasites in images of all the views. The subimages representing all these parasites are put together to form a composite image which can be sent over a communication channel to obtain the opinion of a remote expert for accurate diagnosis and treatment. We demonstrate the use of the proposed technique for use as a decision support system by developing an android application which facilitates the communication with a remote expert for the final confirmation on the decision for treatment of malaria. Our algorithm detects around 96% of the parasites with a false positive rate of 20%. The Spearman correlation r was 0.88 with a confidence interval of 0.838 to 0.923, p < 0.0001.
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