International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET)
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Volume: 04 Issue: 05 | May -2017
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Detection and Classification of Malaria Parasites Using Digital Image Processing S. Sankaran1, M. Pushpahaasa2, R. Akshay3, K. Karthikayani, B. Tech, M. Tech4 1Student,
Dept. of Computer Science Engineering SRM University, Tamilnadu, India Dept. of Computer Science Engineering SRM University, Tamilnadu, India 3Student, Dept. of Computer Science Engineering SRM University, Tamilnadu, India 4Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science Engineering SRM University, Tamilnadu, India 2Student,
---------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------1.2 Plasmodium Vivax
Abstract - Malaria is an infectious disease caused by a
parasite that belong to the genus Plasmodium that are able to invade human blood cell. Method is using digital image processing to indicate the parasite in image and classify the type of the parasite present in the blood cell. The feature extraction technique is used to obtain the blood cells and parasites from the image. The pattern recognition algorithm is used to determine the type of the parasite. The result is obtained in less time with higher efficiency. This method improves the detection of malarial parasite and helps in diagnosis.
P. vivax, is a second most common species. This parasite can be dormant in live showing no symptoms. The affected blood cell becomes larger in size than a normal blood cell and large number of merozoites present in it.
Key Words: Malaria parasite, Plasmodium, Feature Extraction, Classification, Patter Recognition
Fig -1: Plasmodium Vivax
1.INTRODUCTION
1.3 Plasmodium Ovale
Malaria is a disease caused by parasites that are spread to people by the affected mosquitoes. Malaria is preventable and curable disease, malaria is diagnosed by the examining blood sample of the patient under the microscope, the blood drop is spread in to cover glass and it is stained. This stained blood smear is observed under the microscope. The malaria parasite takes blood cell as a host and it evolves and affects other blood cell this cause anemia. The healthy blood cell gets invaded by the parasite. To examine the blood sample and identify the parasite one should expert and should have knowledge about the parasites. There are many different kinds of parasite the most commonly known four species of Plasmodium have long been recognized to infect humans in nature they are - P. falciparum, P. vivax, P. ovale, P. malariae.
P. ovale is less dangerous compared to plasmodium falciparum. It is found in west Africa and Philippines. It has a round and large gametocyte cells, a granular appearance as well as Schuffner's dots will be visible in affected cell.
Fig -2: Plasmodium Ovale
1.4 Plasmodium Malariae P. malariae, is not dangerous as other parasite it causes fever for few days, if untreated remains last long. This will be round shape in coarse granular appearance and contains merozoites.
1.1 Plasmodium Falciparum P. falciparum, is responsible for death of peoples affected by the malaria, this parasite spread rapidly and affect all the normal blood cells. It is the most common species. In the gametocyte stage this parasite turns blood cell in to crescent shape
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