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Automated image processing: Past, present, and future of blood cell morphology identification

  • Noriyuki Tatsumi
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    Address reprint requests to: Noriyuki Tatsumi, MD Department of Clinical and Laboratory Medicine Osaka City University Medical School 1-4-3, Asahimachi, Abeno Osaka, 545-8585 Japan
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    Department of Clinical and Laboratory Medicine, Osaka City University Graduate Medical School, Osaka, Japan
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  • Robert V Pierre
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    Department of Pathology, Los Angeles County/University of Southern California Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
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