Classification of Blood Cells with Convolutional Neural Network Model

Abstract

Among the blood cells, white blood cells (WBC), which play a crucial role in forming our body's defense system, are essential components. Originating in the bone marrow, these cells serve as the fundamental components of the immune system, shouldering the responsibility of safeguarding the body against foreign microbes and diseases. Insufficient WBC counts may compromise the body's skill to resist infections, a status known as leukopenia. White blood cell counting is a specialty procedure that is usually carried out by qualified physicians and radiologists. Thanks to recent advances, image processing techniques are frequently used in biological systems to identify a wide spectrum of illnesses. In this work, image processing techniques were applied to enhance the white blood cell deep learning models' classification accuracy. To expedite the classification process, Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) models were combined with Ridge feature selection and Maximal Information Coefficient techniques. These tactics successfully determined the most important characteristics. The selected feature set was then applied to the classification procedure. ResNet-50, VGG19, and our suggested model were used as feature extractors in this study. The categorizing of white blood cells was completed with an amazing 98.27% success rate. Results from the experiments demonstrated a considerable improvement in classification accuracy using the proposed CNN model.

Keywords

• CNN
• White Blood Cell
• Deep Learning
• Artificial Intelligent

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