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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Published in:Journal of Digital Imaging Vol. 25; no. 4; pp. 542 - 550
Main Authors: Prasad, Keerthana, Winter, Jan, Bhat, Udayakrishna, Acharya, Raviraja, Prabhu, Gopalakrishna
Format: algorithm pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Springer Nature Aug2012
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