Optical Identification of Plasmodium falciparum Malarial Byproduct for Parasite Density Estimation

Figure 8

Scatter plots of first and second Fisher’s linear discriminants showing scattered pixel intensities of uninfected red blood cells (u-RBCs) and Plasmodium falciparum‐infected human red blood cells i-RBCs (+) with parasite density: (+), (++), (+++), and (++++) for (a) 435 nm and (b) 660 nm illumination light sources.

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