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Using Transfer Learning to Train a Binary Classifier for Lorrca Ektacytometery Microscopic Images of Sickle Cells and Healthy Red Blood Cells

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  • Marya Butt

    (Faculty of Engineering, Design & Computing, Inholland University of Applied Sciences, 1817 MN Alkmaar, The Netherlands)

  • Ander de Keijzer

    (Faculty of Engineering, Design & Computing, Inholland University of Applied Sciences, 1817 MN Alkmaar, The Netherlands)

Abstract

Multiple blood images of stressed and sheared cells, taken by a Lorrca Ektacytometery microscope, needed a classification for biomedical researchers to assess several treatment options for blood-related diseases. The study proposes the design of a model capable of classifying these images, with high accuracy, into healthy Red Blood Cells (RBCs) or Sickle Cells (SCs) images. The performances of five Deep Learning (DL) models with two different optimizers, namely Adam and Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD), were compared. The first three models consisted of 1, 2 and 3 blocks of CNN, respectively, and the last two models used a transfer learning approach to extract features. The dataset was first augmented, scaled, and then trained to develop models. The performance of the models was evaluated by testing on new images and was illustrated by confusion matrices, performance metrics (accuracy, recall, precision and f1 score), a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve and the area under the curve (AUC) value. The first, second and third models with the Adam optimizer could not achieve training, validation or testing accuracy above 50%. However, the second and third models with SGD optimizers showed good loss and accuracy scores during training and validation, but the testing accuracy did not exceed 51%. The fourth and fifth models used VGG16 and Resnet50 pre-trained models for feature extraction, respectively. VGG16 performed better than Resnet50, scoring 98% accuracy and an AUC of 0.98 with both optimizers. The study suggests that transfer learning with the VGG16 model helped to extract features from images for the classification of healthy RBCs and SCs, thus making a significant difference in performance comparing the first, second, third and fifth models.

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  • Marya Butt & Ander de Keijzer, 2022. "Using Transfer Learning to Train a Binary Classifier for Lorrca Ektacytometery Microscopic Images of Sickle Cells and Healthy Red Blood Cells," Data, MDPI, vol. 7(9), pages 1-21, September.
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