Table 3.

Comparative WBC detection among methods that considers the complete data set of 30 images corrupted by different levels of salt and pepper noise.

Noise level	Method	Leukocytes detected	Missing	False alarms	DR	FAR
5% salt and pepper noise 517 leukocytes	BSV [3]	185	332	133	34.74%	26.76%
	IO [4]	311	206	106	63.38%	24.88%
	Wang [5]	250	176	121	58.68%	27.70%
	GAB [12]	298	219	135	71.83%	24.18%
	DE based	482	35	32	91.55%	7.04%
10% salt and pepper noise 517 leukocytes	BSV [3]	105	412	157	20.31%	30.37%
	IO [4]	276	241	110	53.38%	21.28%
	Wang [5]	214	303	168	41.39%	32.49%
	GAB [12]	337	180	98	65.18%	18.95%
	DE based	463	54	31	89.55%	5.99%