CLASSFICATION OF MALARIAL PARASITE AND ITS LIFE-CYCLESTAGES IN BLOOD SMEAR

Abstract

A method to classify plasmodium of malaria disease along with its life stage is presented. The geometry and texture features are used as plasmodium features for classification. The geometry features are area and perimeters. The texture features are computed from GLCM matrices. The support vector machine (SVM) classifier is employed for classifying the plasmodium and its life stage into 12 classes. Experiments were conducted using 600 images of blood samples. The SVM with linear kernel gives the accuracy of 57% whereas SVM with RBF kernel yields an accuracy of 99.1%.