Blood cell automated differential count.

The White Blood Cell and Differential Count

The simplest test is the WBC count and differential. White cells can be counted manually in specially designed chambers (Neubauer) or with automated counters. The latter are widely used, offering the advantage of higher accuracy and speed over manual techniques. To determine the differential, a drop of blood is thinly spread over a glass slide, air dried, and stained with a Romanofsky stain, mo...

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Automation of Differential Blood count

Abslracf-A technique for automating the differential count of blood is presented. The proposed system takes as input, color images of stained peripheral blood smears and identifies the class of each of the White Blood Cells (WBC), in order to determine the count of cells in each class. The process involves segmentation, feature extraction and classification. WBC segmentation is a two-step proce...

Smoking, allergy, and the differential white blood cell count.

Dutch workers have proposed that people with asthma and those smokers who develop chronic airflow obstruction share a common allergic constitution. To study whether smoking itself is associated with indicators of allergy, we have examined 237 men aged 51-61 years (120 smokers, 73 ex-smokers, and 44 non-smokers) who were recruited to a long term study of lung function in 1974, at which time men ...

Effect of Thyroid Dysfunctions on Blood Cell Count and Red Blood Cell Indice

Abstract Background Thyroid hormones have a crucial role in metabolism and proliferation of blood cells. Thyroid dysfunction induces different effects on blood cells such as anemia, erythrocytosis leukopenia, thrombocytopenia, and in rare cases causes’ pancytopenia. It also alter RBC indices include MCV, MCH, MCHC and RDW. Thus this study attempted to evaluate effect of hypo & hyperthyroi...