Investigating White Blood Cells as a Source of False-Positive Malaria Parasite Detection in African Blood-Smear Images
White blood cells (WBCs) present on every Giemsa-stained thick blood smear share visual properties with early-stage Plasmodium falciparum ring-form trophozoites: small size, round morphology, and intense purple staining. They are a plausible but untested source of false positives in parasite-only detectors. We trained...
Samuel Adeniji, G. Obasi, Chris-Victor Ntwali et al.
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