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

Table 4

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

Noise level	Method	Leukocytes detected	Missing	False alarms	DR	FAR
𝜎=5 Gaussian noise; 426 Leukocytes	BSV	172	254	77	40.37%	18.07%
	IO	309	117	71	72.53%	16.67%
	Wang	301	125	65	70.66%	15.26%
	BGA	345	81	61	80.98%	14.32%
	EMO	397	29	21	93.19%	4.93%
𝜎=10 Gaussian noise; 426 Leukocytes	BSV	143	283	106	33.57%	24.88%
	IO	281	145	89	65.96%	20.89%
	Wang	264	162	102	61.97%	23.94%
	BGA	308	118	85	72.30%	19.95%
	EMO	380	46	32	89.20%	7.51%