Investigation of CPD and HMDS Sample Preparation Techniques for Cervical Cells in Developing Computer-Aided Screening System Based on FE-SEM/EDX

Table 1

Elemental composition of mapping EDX of six cervical samples based on CPD and HMDS techniques.

Preparation techniques	Name of specimens	Elemental composition (weight %)
		C	O	Al	Na	Ca	Si
Based on CPD technique	Specimen1	45.18	21.19	0.39	0.96	1.5	nd
	Specimen2	56.19	17.52	nd	0.43	0.57	nd
	Specimen3	35.35	19.09	4.81	0.29	3.39	5.66
	Specimen4	43.1	18.46	0.67	nd	nd	1.64
	Specimen5	46.4	14.93	nd	nd	nd	nd
	Specimen6	45.81	13.47	nd	0.53	nd	nd
Based on HMDS technique	Specimen1	53.76	23.36	0.19	nd	1.18	nd
	Specimen2	71.63	23.53	0.37	0.41	0.45	1.83
	Specimen3	63.9	19.4	nd	nd	0.41	nd
	Specimen4	46.08	41.31	4.77	0.14	0.3	5.39
	Specimen5	67.83	26.62	nd	nd	0.51	0.21
	Specimen6	67.81	15.35	nd	nd	nd	nd