b ackground: we attempted to determine the prevalence of hepatozoon spp. infection in mashhad, northeast of iran, via blood smear parasitology. m ethods: the prevalence was investigated by examination of blood smear parasitology, using blood samples collected from 254 dogs (51 strays and 203 privately owned-dogs). r esults: two stray dogs (2/51; 3.92%) and two privately-owned dogs (2/203; 0.98%...

Abstract Medical images play a fundamental role in disease screening, and automated evaluation of these is widely preferred hospitals. Recently, Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) supported medical data assessment adopted to inspect set imaging modalities. Extraction the leukocyte section from thin blood smear image one essential procedures during preliminary screening process. The conventional...

White Blood Cancer is one of the deadliest diseases for human being and its presence can be early diagnosed by detecting the existence of nucleolus in White Blood Cells (WBC) of peripheral blood smear images. In this paper, the author would like to compare the performance of nucleolus candidate zone extraction algorithm by utilizing Wavelet transforms and Curvelet transform. The result confirms...

Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) is a cancer that infects the blood cells causing development of lymphocytes in large numbers. Diagnostic tests are costly and very time-consuming. It important to diagnose ALL using Peripheral Blood Smear (PBS) images, especially initial screening cases. Several issues affect examination process such as diagnostic error, symptoms, nonspecific nature signs ALL....