Background: The use of conventional stains including Giemsa, Wright and Leishman have become an essential tool for differential diagnosis of cells in peripheral blood. Aims: The aim of the study was to develop a new combination of Leishman-Giemsa (L&G;) stain for avian blood smears and to compare its efficacy with conventional staining methods. Methods:<...

The automated diagnosis of cervical cancer in Pap smear images is a difficult though extremely important procedure. In order to obtain reliable diagnostic information, the nuclei and their characteristics must be correctly identified and evaluated. However, the presence of inflammatory and overlapping cells in these images complicates the detection process. In this work, a segmentation algorith...

Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia is a serious disease which may cause death if it not detected at an early stage. It common in children as well adults. The detection of ALL being done manually by examining the blood smear samples under microscope. Manual testing has got several shortcomings such slow and accuracy also less. Generally, inspection experienced pathologists there any malformations pres...

The rapid diagnosis of infectious diseases that represent a public health problem, like tuberculosis, is a challenging problem. The sensitivity of Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) makes it a potential diagnostic test for detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb) in samples with low bacillary load. A cross sectional study was carried out to determine the efficiency of PCR as compared to oth...

BACKGROUND Intraoperative consultations in neuropathology are often assessed by smear preparations rather than by frozen sections. Both techniques are standard practice for light microscopic examination on site, but there is little data comparing these techniques in a telepathology setting. METHODS Thirty cases of brain tumours submitted for intraoperative consultation at our institution betw...

One of the simple and economical diagnostic methods in detecting nasal allergic disorders is cytological examination of nasal smears. This study was conducted to evaluate the usefulness of nasal cytology in individuals suffering from allergic nasal disorders, including allergic nasal polyps with special interest on cytohistological correlation in case of allergic nasal polyps. Effort is also ma...

Computer-aided image analysis has a pivotal role in automated counting and classification of white blood cells (WBCs) peripheral images. Due to their different characteristics, our proposed approach is based on investigating the variations between basophils eosinophils terms color histogram, size, shape before performing segmentation process. Accordingly, we cascaded system using classification...

Blood cell count was performed on an automated analyzer using an ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) blood specimen and showed normal hemoglobin and leukocytes (7.2 109/L), but a mild thrombocytosis (467 109/L). Platelet clumps were flagged by the cell counter. However, when the peripheral smear was reviewed, there was leukocyte agglutination (shown, left) rather than clumps of platelets. Th...