Alireza Akhlaghi - M.S. Student, Dept. Computer and Informatics Engineering, Payame Noor UniversityQeshm, Iran
Mehdi Khalili - Assistant Professor, Dept. Computer and Informatics Engineering, Payame Noor University Tehran, Iran

Malaria is a serious infectious disease, and early and accurate diagnosis is necessary in order to keep it under control. In this paper, we propose an efficient algorithm to diagnose malaria using Gray-Level Co-Occurrence Matrix (GLCM) and a probabilistic neural network (PNN). In the proposed algorithm, after pre-processing, the red blood cells were separated from images using an active contour model. Consequently, 44 features were extracted from the images using GLCM. Finally, the features were classified into normal and abnormal groups by PNN.The results show that compared to previous studies, the proposed algorithm led to improved results and accurately assessed 557.99 of 851 hospital records.

malaria; probabilistic neural network; Gray-Level Co-Occurrence Matrix; active contour models; classification; Feature Extraction