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Normal Versus Malignant Cell Classification in B-allwhite Blood Cancer Microscopic Images Using Deep Learning

Received: 12 July 2022     Accepted: 4 August 2022     Published: 29 September 2022
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Abstract

In diagnosing cancer and determining its progress, an important aspect is the identification of malignant cells. Blood diseases such as leukemia are generally detected when cancer cells are much larger than normal cells in the late stages. Due to strong morphological similarities, the differentiation of cancer cells from normal blood cells is a challenge. Compared with normal cells, the precise classification of malignant cells in a microscopic image of blood cells depends on the early diagnosis of leukaemia. Transfer learning and fine-tuning of the VGG16 convolutional neural network through batch normalization can resolve the malignant and normal white blood cells classification problem with higher accuracy. Applying CLAHE to enhance image data quality is then passed as input to the network for training purposes. The results acquired by the fine- tuning of triple-loss and cross-entropy or cross- entropy loss with L2 normalization are compared. Furthermore, fine-tuning on a combined training validation dataset using simple cross-entropy loss can improve the model's performance. As an effective technique for diagnosing leukaemia, computer-aided cell classification has become popular. Fine-tuning VGG16 neural networks to classify normal and malignant cell images through batch standardization is part of our classification method. The proposed convolutional neural network detects cancer and normal cells with greater accuracy and time efficiency.

Published in American Journal of Computer Science and Technology (Volume 5, Issue 3)
DOI 10.11648/j.ajcst.20220503.16
Page(s) 190-197
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Keywords

Microscopic Images, Leukemia, Computer Aided Diagnosis, Deep Learning

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  • Department of Computer Science and Technology, Abasyn University, Peshawar, Pakistan

  • Department of Computer Science, CECOS University of IT and Emerging Sciences, Peshawar, Pakistan

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