Optical Identification of Plasmodium falciparum Malarial Byproduct for Parasite Density Estimation

Figure 4

Three-dimensional plots of pixel intensities/a.u (represented as I) and radii/μm (represented as r) against spectral range/nm (represented as λ) of multispectral images in the scattering mode for (a) uninfected RBCs (u-RBCs) and Plasmodium falciparum‐infected RBCs (i-RBCs) of parasite density (PD) (b) (+), (c) (++), (d) (+++), and (e) (++++).

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