Machine aided malaria parasitemia detection in Giemsa-stained thin blood smears

• Main Authors: Abbas, Naveed, Saba, Tanzila, Mohamad, Dzulkifli, Rehman, Amjad, Almazyad, Abdulaziz Suleiman, Al-Ghamdi, Jarallah Saleh
• Format: Article
• Published: Springer-Verlag London Ltd 2016
• Subjects: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/72817/; https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84979547569&doi=10.1007%2fs00521-016-2474-6&partnerID=40&md5=65adadbc4c126848ce1f467786690a65
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

Malaria parasitemia is the quantitative measurement of the parasites in the blood to grade the degree of infection. Light microscopy is the most well-known method used to examine the blood for parasitemia quantification. The visual quantification of malaria parasitemia is laborious, time-consuming a...