A HOME MONITORING APPLICATION FOR COUNTING RED BLOOD CELLS USING A MORPHOMETRIC CONTOUR ALGORITHM

摘要

Home monitoring of the personal health is becoming increasingly popular. This article describes the development of a Windows Store application that takes images of a blood smear on a slide from a connected consumer grade USB microscope, removes the cytoplasm background, and uses a morphometric contour algorithm on the cell rim to count blood cells. Thus, a person can test his blood on a regular basis. Experiments show that the application can count blood cells with an accuracy of 96%.