Table 2.

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

Leukocyte type	Method	Leukocytes detected	Missing	False alarms	DR	FAR
Bright leukocytes (287)	BSV [3]	130	157	84	45.30%	29.27%
	IO [4]	227	60	73	79.09%	25.43%
	Wang [5]	231	56	60	80.49%	20.90%
	GAB [12]	220	67	22	76.65%	7.66%
	DE based	281	6	11	97.91%	3.83%
Dark leukocytes (230)	BSV [3]	105	125	59	46.65%	25.65%
	IO [4]	183	47	61	79.56%	26.52%
	Wang [5]	196	34	47	85.22%	20.43%
	GAB [12]	179	51	23	77.83%	10.00%
	DE based	227	3	3	98.70%	1.30%
Overall (517)	BSV [3]	235	282	143	45.45%	27.66%
	IO [4]	410	107	134	79.30%	25.92%
	Wang [5]	427	90	107	82.59%	20.70%
	GAB [12]	399	118	45	77.18%	8.70%
	DE based	508	9	14	98.26%	2.71%