1. Texture of white blood cells expressed by the counting densitogram.
- Author
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Bins M, Landeweerd GH, Gelsema ES, van Montfort LH, and Halie MR
- Subjects
- Basophils classification, Cell Nucleus ultrastructure, Cytoplasm ultrastructure, Eosinophils classification, Humans, Leukocytes ultrastructure, Lymphocytes classification, Monocytes classification, Hematology methods, Leukocytes classification
- Abstract
The counting of particles and holes in white blood cells during thresholding at different gray levels results in a histogram, the counting densitogram, which contains information about granularity. Parameters describing the shape of this histogram appear to be sufficiently characteristic for the five normal white blood cell classes to allow a 84% correct discrimination between them. This method to quantitate granularity could be valuable for the analysis of cell texture and therefore, when used in combination with geometrical and density histogram parameters, could contribute to the results of morphometric discrimination between other than normal white blood cells.
- Published
- 1981
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