BACKGROUND There is great interest in reducing the number of automated complete blood counts requiring manual blood smear reviews without sacrificing the quality of patient care. This study was aimed at evaluating and establishing appropriate screening criteria for manual blood smear reviews to improve the performance in a hematology laboratory. METHOD A total of 1977 consecutive samples from...

this report described sarcocystis-like merozoites in peripheral blood smear of a woman with mild fever, rigor and musculoskeletal pain. extracellular organisms with a pale blue cytoplasm and one or two nuclei were seen in her blood smear stained with giemsa. sarcocystis-like can be considered as a possible cause of some idiopathic febrile diseases.

Figure 2. Bone marrow aspirate smear demonstrating blasts of myeloid lineage. Figure 1. Peripheral blood smear showing a myeloblast.

High resolution ultrasound and photoacoustic images of stained neutrophils, lymphocytes and monocytes from a blood smear were acquired using a combined acoustic/photoacoustic microscope. Photoacoustic images were created using a pulsed 532 nm laser that was coupled to a single mode fiber to produce output wavelengths from 532 nm to 620 nm via stimulated Raman scattering. The excitation waveleng...

Abstract In this case report, the author reports three strong and highly unusual changes in peripheral blood of a domestic cat infected with Anaplasma . A freshly made smear from had shower about 100 variably large to huge cytoplasmic fragments megakaryocyte cytoplasm along feathered edge. These budding platelets at their margins. Neutrophils red inclusions resembling ragocytes neutrophils inge...

Image Enhancement is the first and foremost step that has to be done in all image processing applications. It is used to improve the quality of digital images. Microscopic images are prone to addition of noise from various sources such as error in camera calibration, excess staining of microscopic slides, etc.; Image de-noising is an enhancement technique that is used to remove noise present in...

This paper presents a method for the identification of leukaemia cells within images of blood smear microscope slides, which is currently a time consuming manual process. The work presented is the first stage of a procedure aimed at classifying the sub-types of Acute Myeloid Leukaemia. This paper utilises the techniques of Otsu, Cellular Automata and heuristic search and highlights a comparison...

Abstract Image segmentation is a critical step in computer-aided diagnosis that could speed up Leukemia detection. cancer of the blood has reputation for being particularly lethal. Based on immunohistochemical method, leukocytes can be manually counted stained peripheral smear image to detect Acute Lymphoblastic (ALL). Regrettably, manual process takes about 3 24 hours complete, which insuffici...