White blood cells classification using multi-fold pre-processing and optimized CNN model

Abstract White blood cells (WBCs) play a vital role in immune responses against infections and foreign agents. Different WBC types exist, and anomalies within them can indicate diseases like leukemia. Previous research suffers from limited accuracy and inflated performance due to the usage of less i...

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Main Authors: Oumaima Saidani, Muhammad Umer, Nazik Alturki, Amal Alshardan, Muniba Kiran, Shtwai Alsubai, Tai-Hoon Kim, Imran Ashraf
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2024-02-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-52880-0
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author Oumaima Saidani
Muhammad Umer
Nazik Alturki
Amal Alshardan
Muniba Kiran
Shtwai Alsubai
Tai-Hoon Kim
Imran Ashraf
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Muhammad Umer
Nazik Alturki
Amal Alshardan
Muniba Kiran
Shtwai Alsubai
Tai-Hoon Kim
Imran Ashraf
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description Abstract White blood cells (WBCs) play a vital role in immune responses against infections and foreign agents. Different WBC types exist, and anomalies within them can indicate diseases like leukemia. Previous research suffers from limited accuracy and inflated performance due to the usage of less important features. Moreover, these studies often focus on fewer WBC types, exaggerating accuracy. This study addresses the crucial task of classifying WBC types using microscopic images. This study introduces a novel approach using extensive pre-processing with data augmentation techniques to produce a more significant feature set to achieve more promising results. The study conducts experiments employing both conventional deep learning and transfer learning models, comparing performance with state-of-the-art machine and deep learning models. Results reveal that a pre-processed feature set and convolutional neural network classifier achieves a significantly better accuracy of 0.99. The proposed method demonstrates superior accuracy and computational efficiency compared to existing state-of-the-art works.
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spelling doaj.art-926d2866d2f641208643d21487e7faf12024-03-05T19:09:18ZengNature PortfolioScientific Reports2045-23222024-02-0114111410.1038/s41598-024-52880-0White blood cells classification using multi-fold pre-processing and optimized CNN modelOumaima Saidani0Muhammad Umer1Nazik Alturki2Amal Alshardan3Muniba Kiran4Shtwai Alsubai5Tai-Hoon Kim6Imran Ashraf7Department of Information Systems, College of Computer and Information Sciences, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman UniversityDepartment of Computer Science and Information Technology, The Islamia University of BahawalpurDepartment of Information Systems, College of Computer and Information Sciences, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman UniversityDepartment of Information Systems, College of Computer and Information Sciences, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman UniversityDepartment of Biotechnology, Virtual University of PakistanDepartment of Computer Science, College of Computer Engineering and Sciences, Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz UniversitySchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Yeosu Campus, Chonnam National UniversityInformation and Communication Engineering, Yeungnam UniversityAbstract White blood cells (WBCs) play a vital role in immune responses against infections and foreign agents. Different WBC types exist, and anomalies within them can indicate diseases like leukemia. Previous research suffers from limited accuracy and inflated performance due to the usage of less important features. Moreover, these studies often focus on fewer WBC types, exaggerating accuracy. This study addresses the crucial task of classifying WBC types using microscopic images. This study introduces a novel approach using extensive pre-processing with data augmentation techniques to produce a more significant feature set to achieve more promising results. The study conducts experiments employing both conventional deep learning and transfer learning models, comparing performance with state-of-the-art machine and deep learning models. Results reveal that a pre-processed feature set and convolutional neural network classifier achieves a significantly better accuracy of 0.99. The proposed method demonstrates superior accuracy and computational efficiency compared to existing state-of-the-art works.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-52880-0
spellingShingle Oumaima Saidani
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Nazik Alturki
Amal Alshardan
Muniba Kiran
Shtwai Alsubai
Tai-Hoon Kim
Imran Ashraf
White blood cells classification using multi-fold pre-processing and optimized CNN model
Scientific Reports
title White blood cells classification using multi-fold pre-processing and optimized CNN model
title_full White blood cells classification using multi-fold pre-processing and optimized CNN model
title_fullStr White blood cells classification using multi-fold pre-processing and optimized CNN model
title_full_unstemmed White blood cells classification using multi-fold pre-processing and optimized CNN model
title_short White blood cells classification using multi-fold pre-processing and optimized CNN model
title_sort white blood cells classification using multi fold pre processing and optimized cnn model
url https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-52880-0
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