I have recently drawn interest in developing automatic methods for detecting malarial parasites from blood smear images. There are, in fact, a dozen of methods and algorithms available in literature. However, the implementation codes are not openly available for readers and curious people to experiment the proposed methods. Because I am newbie in this medical field, I just wanted to have some MATLAB codes (I am familiar in this platform) to quickly test the methods. In particular, I have read the paper entitled "MalariaCount: An image analysis-based program for the accurate determination of parasitemia" available at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167701206001692. This paper proposes a method for parasitemia identification and the authors have implemented their method in a software called MalariaCount. I have unsuccessfully searched online to get these codes so I can experiment myself under different conditions. I am not sure if the software is copyrighted because because there are not enough information online, and my request from the authors has not provided any feedback. If anyone has a link to this software (MalariaCount) or even any other related software for detection of malarial parasites in infected blood smear sample images kindly share.
The authors attached their code in: Appendix A. Supplementary material. It is available on site which you've linked.
Oh, thanks very much Grzegorz Knor. I should admit that I didn't look the appendices of the paper, just concentrated on the idea presented.
I am trying to run the MalariaCount codes proposed in the paper "MalariaCount: An image analysis-based program for the accurate determination of parasitemia" (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167701206001692). I am, however, getting the following error:
Undefined function 'clearl' for input arguments of type 'logical'.
Error in malariacount (line 120)
bw2 = clearl(bw);
The function 'clearl' which MATLAB complains, from my search, appears not to be a built in MATLAB function. However, the authors have included it in their code and I can't trace the location of its implementation (declaration) the the supplementary resources in their paper. I understand the mechanics of most parts of the code, except this particular function. Any one with an idea of this function.
In an attempt to solve a problem, i just tried to comment the lines. The code, as a result, throws another error:
Undefined function or variable 'd5'.
Error in ccvselect4 (line 94)
split_measure = (cvdist(i) + cvdist(j) - 2.7352)/(cvdist(i) + cvdist(j) - 2.7352 +
0.5798*d5);
Error in segmentor2 (line 16)
[temp,idfinal] = ccvselect4(temp);
Error in malariacount (line 151)
[I,bw] = segmentor2(bw,I); %split overlapping binary objects
Hello Eva,
I am sorry I could not provide response for a long time. I also did send email to the first author but I have not received feedback as of now. I now think to start from scratch designing the code for Malaria detection. I have an idea to improve the framework proposed by the authors, but I then should be able to run their code using the source cell images (which are not available in the list of supplementary materials). Are you ready we work together on this and Co-Author a paper?
Hello Eva,
I indeed still need the codes and the data. As you have got these materials, kindly share with me. You may use my email [email protected]. One of my recent papers was rejected for a simple reason that I did not include many experiments from standard datasets, and the images you will provide will hopefully help me to improve the paper further.
Hello Eva,
Could you please share with me the codes and the data. As you have got these materials. You may use my email [email protected].
Have a nice day
Rufaida
Could you please share with me the missing codes and data.My email id is [email protected]
Thanks in advance,
Richa
could you please share that codes and data as well, to mail id [email protected].
thanks in advance.
regards
Bhaskar Pawar
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