Background
The cytological bone marrow examination serves as clarification of variations in a blood smear differential. It is also used for the clarification of anemia, as exclusion of bone marrow affection at lymphoma and at suspicion of leukemia.
The morphological evaluation of bone marrow cells is the basis for the creation of the diagnosis and for decision support for further diagnostics. Developments such as the demographic change and rising costs in the health care sector require the centralization and automatization of the correspondent cytological examinations which are not possible at the moment.