1. Textbook of Medical Physiology;Guyton,1996
2. See by example the Northen Carolina Comprehensive Thalassemia Center web page at 〈http://www.talassemia.com〉.
3. The different cell shapes were identified using Bessis’ classification [4]. Discocyte: biconcave disc form of red blood cells. Acanthocyte: irregularly spiculate red blood cells with projections of varying length and position. Dacryocyte: red blood cells with a simple elongated or pointed extremity.
4. Red cell shapes. An illustrated classification and its rationale;Bessis;Nouv. Rev. Fr. Hematol.,1972
5. A Wavelet Tour of Signal Processing;Mallat,1999