Malarial Parasite Detection and Recognition using Microscopic Images

Author(s):  
Arslan Khalid ◽  
Zulqarnain Haider ◽  
Ikramullah Khosa
IEEE Access ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 93782-93792 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Umer ◽  
Saima Sadiq ◽  
Muhammad Ahmad ◽  
Saleem Ullah ◽  
Gyu Sang Choi ◽  
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Author(s):  
Madhu Golla

Malaria is the leading health problem globally in the equatorial regions. Even after campaigning and control by the World Health Organization (WHO), malaria is a high mortality-causing infectious disease due to inappropriate and late diagnosis. To prevent getting affected by malaria, the diagnosis should be in the early stage and accurate. This research presents an innovative approach for erythrocyte segmentation and malaria parasite detection from microscopic images. In addition, the author utilizes Einstein t-conorm function to generate new fuzzy membership function which is used to segment the infected regions of the blood cells in microscopic images. Finally, the inverse Gaussian gradient function is used for the final segmentation. This technique is compared with state-of-the-art segmentation techniques such as k-means, fuzzy c-means segmentation, and spatial intuitionistic fuzzy c-means (SIFCM) segmentation approaches. Experimental results are validated qualitatively, and it is deduced that the proposed method is the robust segmentation method for malaria parasite detection.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aravinda C ◽  
Meng Lin ◽  
Udaya Kumar Reddy K R ◽  
Amar Prabhu G

Abstract Background: Malarial fever disease mainly caused by Plasmodium para-site that is infectious to red blood cells. Manual mode of blood cell counting is a tedious process, this leads to distressing method for diagnosis. This process’s mainly impacted on larger screening process.Introduction: The advanced stage of technology, computer aided detection and analysis of this malarial disease, based on Gabor Filters followed by the comparison of XG-Boost classifier, Support Vector Machine and Neural Net-work Classifier algorithms chosen as architecture of choice for recognition and classification of these malarial blood cells.Objective: The goal of this paper is to slow down the complexity in model discrepancy’s, and bring it to more desirable robustness and generalization, through the model development which detects and classify the parasitized and uninfected blood cells in the given sample. Roughly 13750 parasitized and 13750 unparasitized samples was taken for experiments.Results: From the experiments the models such as S.V.M achieved 94% and XG-Boost achieved 90% neural network classifier achieved 80% , out of these S.V.M performed good results in classifying and recognizing the parasitized and uninfected blood cells to increase the accuracy in decision making. Conclusion: The accomplishment of these M.L models, pretends these problems with less variance and obtained excellent results.


Author(s):  
Umi Salamah ◽  
Riyanarto Sarno ◽  
Agus Zainal Arifin ◽  
Anto Satriyo Nugroho ◽  
Ismail Ekoprayitno Rozi ◽  
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2010 ◽  
Vol 80 (45) ◽  
pp. 279-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Hurrell

Febrile malaria and asymptomatic malaria parasitemia substantially decrease iron absorption in single-meal, stable isotope studies in women and children, but to date there is no evidence of decreased efficacy of iron-fortified foods in malaria-endemic regions. Without inadequate malarial surveillance or health care, giving iron supplements to children in areas of high transmission could increase morbidity and mortality. The most likely explanation is the appearance of non-transferrin-bound iron (NTBI) in the plasma. NTBI forms when the rate of iron influx into the plasma exceeds the rate of iron binding to transferrin. Two studies in women have reported substantially increased NTBI with the ingestion of iron supplements. Our studies confirm this, but found no significant increase in NTBI on consumption of iron-fortified food. It seems likely that the malarial parasite in hepatocytes can utilize NTBI, but it cannot do so in infected erythrocytes. NTBI however may increase the sequestration of parasite-infected erythrocytes in capillaries. Bacteremia is common in children with severe malaria and sequestration in villi capillaries could lead to a breaching of the intestinal barrier, allowing the passage of pathogenic bacteria into the systemic circulation. This is especially important as frequent high iron doses increase the number of pathogens in the intestine at the expense of the barrier bacteria.


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