Research Article

White Blood Cell Segmentation by Circle Detection Using Electromagnetism-Like Optimization

Table 2

Comparative leukocyte detection performance of the BSV approach, the IO method, the Wang algorithm, the BGA detector, and the proposed EMO method over the data set which contains 30 images and 426 leukocytes.

Leukocyte typeMethodLeukocytes detected
MissingFalse alarmsDRFAR

Bright leukocytes (222)BSV1041186746.85%30.18%
IO175475578.83%24.77%
Wang186364283.78%18.92%
BGA177452279.73%9.91%
EMO211111095.04%4.50%

Dark leukocytes (204)BSV981065448.04%26.47%
IO166384981.37%24.02%
Wang181233888.72%18.63%
BGA170341983.33%9.31%
EMO2004698.04%2.94%

Overall (426)BSV20222412147.42%28.40%
IO3418510480.05%24.41%
Wang367598086.15%18.78%
BGA347794181.45%9.62%
EMO411151696.48%3.75%