Optimization of Laboratory Ordering Practices for Complete Blood Count With Differential

The complete blood count.

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...

Blood transfusion Coagulation Basic Blood Count Leucocyte differential count Reticulocytes

The Effect of Pregnancy Induced Hypertension on Complete Blood Count of Newborn

  Background: Pregnancy induced hypertension is one of the most common causes of maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity. New born delivered to mothers with hypertension are more liable for intrauterine growth retardation and may be delivered prematurely. We aimed to determine the effect of pregnancy-induced hypertension on complete blood count, gestational age and birth weight of newborn...

Complete blood count alterations in disseminated histoplasmosis

Classical histoplasmosis is a cosmopolitan fungal infection caused by Histoplasma capsulatum variety capsulatum.1 H. capsulatum is a dimorphic fungus found in nature in its filamentous form, consisting of branched hyphae, which produce tuberculate macroconidia, the infective form of the fungus. When cultivated at 37 ◦C and in the tissues of infected people, it presents as budding yeast cells.1 ...