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Bioingenium Research Group, Cra 30 No 45 03-Ciudad Universitaria, Faculty of Medicine-Building 471, National University of Colombia, Telemedicina Centre, Bogotá DC, Colombia.
Visual quantification of parasitemia in thin blood films is a very tedious, subjective and time-consuming task. This study presents an original method for quantification and classification of erythrocytes in stained thin blood films infected with Plasmodium falciparum. The proposed approach is composed of three main phases: a preprocessing step, which corrects luminance differences. A segmentation step that uses the normalized RGB color space for classifying pixels either as erythrocyte or background followed by an Inclusion-Tree representation that structures the pixel information into objects, from which erythrocytes are found. Finally, a two step classification process identifies infected erythrocytes and differentiates the infection stage, using a trained bank of classifiers. Additionally, user intervention is allowed when the approach cannot make a proper decision. Four hundred fifty malaria images were used for training and evaluating the method. Automatic identification of infected erythrocytes showed a specificity of 99.7% and a sensitivity of 94%. The infection stage was determined with an average sensitivity of 78.8% and average specificity of 91.2%.
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