Table 4.

Quantitative comparison of proposed technique with existing techniques.

Paper	WBCs seg	RBCs seg	Platelets seg	Accuracy (%)	Global accuracy	Evaluation matrices	Cell type
Nikitaev et al. [4]	✓	✕	✕	WBCs = 82	✕	Accuracy	Single cell
Miao and Xiao [5]	✓	✓	✕	WBCs = 97.2 RBCs = 94.8	✕	Accuracy	Single cell
Cao et al. [19]	✓	✕	✕	RBCs = 93.75	✕	Accuracy	Single cell
Shahin et al [15]	✓	✕	✕	WBCs = 97.6	✕	Accuracy	Single cell
Mohammed et al. [29]	✓	✕	✕	WBCs = 90	✕	Accuracy	Single cell
Proposed method	✓	✓	✓	RBCs = 97.45 WBCs = 93.34 Platelets = 85.11	97.18%	Accuracy, IoU, mean and weighted IoU, BFScore	Whole-slide image, segment WBCs, RBCs, and platelets simultaneously