Table 1

Comparison of manual and automatic parasitemia estimation

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%

Le et al. BMC Cell Biology 2008 9:15   doi:10.1186/1471-2121-9-15