discrimination between iron deficiency (ida) anemia and β-thalassemia trait (β-tt) is a time consuming and costly problem. because, they have approximate similar effects on routine blood test indices, in some cases, the complementary tests, which are expensive and time consuming, would be needed for differentiate the anemia. complete blood count (cbc) is a fast, inexpensive, and accessible medi...

OBJECTIVE This study was aimed to investigate the prevalence rate and clinical characteristics of high altitude deterioration (HADT), which would provide a scientific basis for the diagnosis and prevention of HADT. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A total of 175 subjects, who had migrated to a high altitude (4516 m) for more than 1 year, were investigated. A questionnaire survey based on the symptoms of ...

Background: The full blood count (FBC) is a common test performed in general practice. It consists of many individual parameters that may change over time due to colorectal cancer. Such changes are likely missed We identified trends these FBC facilitate early detection cancer. Methods: We retrospective, case-control, longitudinal a...

Miniature high speed label-free cell analysis systems have yet to be developed, but have the potential to deliver fast, inexpensive and simple full blood cell analysis systems that could be used routinely in clinical practice. We demonstrate a microfluidic single cell impedance cytometer that performs a white blood cell differential count. The device consists of a microfluidic chip with micro-e...

The peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) count is a routinely used and meaningful index for infection and blood diseases. PBMCs may be closely related to osteoclasts and include osteoclast precursors; we examined the association between the PBMC count and bone health. This research included 2806 community men aged ≥50 years who underwent full health examinations from October 2007 through De...

Platelets are anuclear blood cells whose function is to form blood clots when we injure ourselves, to prevent excessive blood loss. Thrombocytopenia is a relative low number of platelets in the blood. Thrombocytopenia has several possible causes, including the trapping of platelets in spleen, reduced production of platelets and increased breakdown of platelets. Some examples of an increase in p...

Abslracf-A technique for automating the differential count of blood is presented. The proposed system takes as input, color images of stained peripheral blood smears and identifies the class of each of the White Blood Cells (WBC), in order to determine the count of cells in each class. The process involves segmentation, feature extraction and classification. WBC segmentation is a two-step proce...