Chagas Parasite Detection in Blood Images Using AdaBoost
Joint Authors
Uc-Cetina, Víctor
Brito-Loeza, Carlos
Ruiz-Piña, Hugo
Source
Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine
Issue
Vol. 2015, Issue 2015 (31 Dec. 2015), pp.1-13, 13 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2015-03-11
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
13
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
The Chagas disease is a potentially life-threatening illness caused by the protozoan parasite, Trypanosoma cruzi.
Visual detection of such parasite through microscopic inspection is a tedious and time-consuming task.
In this paper, we provide an AdaBoost learning solution to the task of Chagas parasite detection in blood images.
We give details of the algorithm and our experimental setup.
With this method, we get 100% and 93.25% of sensitivity and specificity, respectively.
A ROC comparison with the method most commonly used for the detection of malaria parasites based on support vector machines (SVM) is also provided.
Our experimental work shows mainly two things: (1) Chagas parasites can be detected automatically using machine learning methods with high accuracy and (2) AdaBoost + SVM provides better overall detection performance than AdaBoost or SVMs alone.
Such results are the best ones known so far for the problem of automatic detection of Chagas parasites through the use of machine learning, computer vision, and image processing methods.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Uc-Cetina, Víctor& Brito-Loeza, Carlos& Ruiz-Piña, Hugo. 2015. Chagas Parasite Detection in Blood Images Using AdaBoost. Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine،Vol. 2015, no. 2015, pp.1-13.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1057806
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Uc-Cetina, Víctor…[et al.]. Chagas Parasite Detection in Blood Images Using AdaBoost. Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine No. 2015 (2015), pp.1-13.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1057806
American Medical Association (AMA)
Uc-Cetina, Víctor& Brito-Loeza, Carlos& Ruiz-Piña, Hugo. Chagas Parasite Detection in Blood Images Using AdaBoost. Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine. 2015. Vol. 2015, no. 2015, pp.1-13.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1057806
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1057806