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

Table 3

Comparative WBC detection among methods that considers the complete data set of 30 images corrupted by different levels of salt and pepper noise.

Noise level	Method	Leukocytes detected	Missing	False alarms	DR	FAR
5% salt and pepper noise; 426 leukocytes	BSV	148	278	114	34.74%	26.76%
	IO	270	156	106	63.38%	24.88%
	Wang	250	176	118	58.68%	27.70%
	BGA	306	120	103	71.83%	24.18%
	EMO	390	36	30	91.55%	7.04%
10% salt and pepper; noise; 426 leukocytes	BSV	101	325	120	23.71%	28.17%
	IO	240	186	78	56.34%	18.31%
	Wang	184	242	123	43.19%	28.87%
	BGA	294	132	83	69.01%	19.48%
	EMO	374	52	35	87.79%	8.21%