Table 4.

Comparative WBC detection among methods which considers the complete data set of 30 images corrupted by different levels of Gaussian noise.

Noise level	Method	Leukocytes detected	Missing	False alarms	DR	FAR
σ = 5 Gaussian noise 517 leukocytes	BSV [3]	214	303	98	41.39%	18.95%
	IO [4]	366	151	87	70.79%	16.83%
	Wang [5]	358	159	84	69.25%	16.25%
	GAB [12]	407	110	76	78.72%	14.70%
	DE-based	487	30	21	94.20%	4.06%
σ = 10 Gaussian noise 517 leukocytes	BSV [3]	162	355	129	31.33%	24.95%
	IO [4]	331	186	112	64.02%	21.66%
	Wang [5]	315	202	124	60.93%	23.98%
	GAB [12]	363	154	113	70.21%	21.86%
	DE-based	471	46	35	91.10%	6.77%