Inspec keywords: image colour analysis; medical image processing; biomedical optical imaging; image classification; diseases; image segmentation; support vector machines; neural nets; optical microscopy

Other keywords: false-positive rate; TB patients; severity analysis; classification method; automatic classification; fractional theory; crow search algorithm; sputum images; tuberculosis; patient classification; fractional crow search-based support vector neural network; computational speed

Subjects: Optical and laser radiation (medical uses); Optical and laser radiation (biomedical imaging/measurement); Neural computing techniques; Optical, image and video signal processing; Computer vision and image processing techniques; Knowledge engineering techniques; Patient diagnostic methods and instrumentation; Biology and medical computing