Optical Identification of Plasmodium falciparum Malarial Byproduct for Parasite Density Estimation

Figure 6

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

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