Detection of Peripheral Malarial Parasites in Blood Smears Using Deep Learning Models.

Journal: Computational intelligence and neuroscience
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Abstract

Due to the plasmodium parasite, malaria is transmitted mostly through red blood cells. Manually counting blood cells is extremely time consuming and tedious. In a recommendation for the advanced technology stage and analysis of malarial disease, the performance of the XG-Boost, SVM, and neural networks is compared. In comparison to machine learning models, convolutional neural networks provide reliable results when analyzing and recognizing the same datasets. To reduce discrepancies and improve robustness and generalization, we developed a model that analyzes blood samples to determine whether the cells are parasitized or not. Experiments were conducted on 13,750 parasitized and 13,750 parasitic samples. Support vector machines achieved 94% accuracy, XG-Boost models achieved 90% accuracy, and neural networks achieved 80% accuracy. Among these three models, the support vector machine was the most accurate at distinguishing parasitized cells from uninfected ones. An accuracy rate of 97% was achieved by the convolution neural network in recognizing the samples. The deep learning model is useful for decision making because of its better accuracy.

Authors

  • Amal H Alharbi
    Department of Computer Sciences, College of Computer and Information Sciences, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, P.O. Box 84428, Riyadh 11671, Saudi Arabia.
  • Aravinda C V
    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, NITTE Mahalinga Adyantaya Memorial Institute of Technology, NITTE Deemed to Be University, Karkala, Karnataka, India.
  • Meng Lin
    Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering (The Graduate School of Science and Engineering), Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Shiga, Japan.
  • B Ashwini
    N. M. A. M. Institute of Technology, Nitte 574110, Karkala, India.
  • Mohamed Yaseen Jabarulla
    School of Electrical Engineering and Computer ScienceGwangju Institute of Science and Technology Gwangju 61005 South Korea.
  • Mohd Asif Shah
    Bakhtar University, Kabul, Afghanistan.