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Table 1 Comparison of manual and automatic parasitemia estimation

From: A novel semi-automatic image processing approach to determine Plasmodium falciparum parasitemia in Giemsa-stained thin blood smears

Image

WBC

Manual estimation

Automatic estimation

Parasitemia estimation error

  

RBCs

Infections

Parasitemia

RBCs

Infections

Parasitemia

 

2(a)

No

188

16

8.51%

180

16

8.89%

0.38%

2(b)

No

108

8

7.41%

105

7

6.67%

0.74%

2(c)

Yes

209

6

2.87%

219

7

3.20%

0.33%

2(d)

No

312

5

1.60%

302

4

1.32%

0.28%

2(e)

No

303

14

4.62%

273

15

5.49%

0.87%

2(f)

No

327

5

1.53%

268

8

2.99%

1.46%

2(g)

No

268

19

7.09%

254

18

7.09%

0.00%

2(h)

No

240

24

10.00%

272

30

11.03%

1.03%

2(i)

No

361

10

2.77%

361

12

3.32%

0.55%