Table 2.

Comparative leukocyte detection performance of the BSV approach, the IO method, the Wang algorithm, the BGA detector, and the proposed EMO method over the data set which contains 30 images and 426 leukocytes.

Leukocyte type	Method	Leukocytes detected	Missing	False alarms	DR	FAR
Bright leukocytes (222)	BSV	104	118	67	46.85%	30.18%
	IO	175	47	55	78.83%	24.77%
	Wang	186	36	42	83.78%	18.92%
	BGA	177	45	22	79.73%	9.91%
	EMO	211	11	10	95.04%	4.50%
Dark leukocytes (204)	BSV	98	106	54	48.04%	26.47%
	IO	166	38	49	81.37%	24.02%
	Wang	181	23	38	88.72%	18.63%
	BGA	170	34	19	83.33%	9.31%
	EMO	200	4	6	98.04%	2.94%
Overall (426)	BSV	202	224	121	47.42%	28.40%
	IO	341	85	104	80.05%	24.41%
	Wang	367	59	80	86.15%	18.78%
	BGA	347	79	41	81.45%	9.62%
	EMO	411	15	16	96.48%	3.75%