Human peripheral blood leukocyte classification method based on convolutional neural network and data augmentation.

Journal: Medical physics
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Abstract

PURPOSE: Human peripheral blood leukocytes' classification is important for diagnosing blood diseases. Many microscopic leukocyte image automatic detection methods are proposed. In recent years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are applied to microscopic leukocyte image automatic classification. But when a CNN is used for microscopic leukocyte image classification, the dataset's scarcity and imbalance will lead to low classification accuracy. To improve classification accuracy, a data augmentation method is proposed, and a resampling method is adopted when using a CNN method.

Authors

  • Yapin Wang
    Department of Opto-electronics, SichuanUniversity, Chengdu, 610064, China.
  • Yiping Cao
    Department of Opto-electronics, SichuanUniversity, Chengdu, 610064, China.