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Classification of Leukemia Disease in Peripheral Blood Cell Images Using Convolutional Neural Network

  • Tran, Thanh (Dept. of IT Convergence and Application Engineering, Pukyong National University) ;
  • Park, Jin-Hyuk (Dept. of IT Convergence and Application Engineering, Pukyong National University) ;
  • Kwon, Oh-Heum (Dept. of IT Convergence and Application Engineering, Pukyong National University) ;
  • Moon, Kwang-Seok (Dept. of Electronics, Pukyong National University) ;
  • Lee, Suk-Hwan (Dept. of Information Security, Tongmyong University) ;
  • Kwon, Ki-Ryong (Dept. of IT Convergence and Application Engineering, Pukyong National University)
  • Received : 2018.07.06
  • Accepted : 2018.09.10
  • Published : 2018.10.31

Abstract

Classification is widely used in medical images to categorize patients and non-patients. However, conventional classification requires a complex procedure, including some rigid steps such as pre-processing, segmentation, feature extraction, detection, and classification. In this paper, we propose a novel convolutional neural network (CNN), called LeukemiaNet, to specifically classify two different types of leukemia, including acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and acute myeloid leukemia (AML), and non-cancerous patients. To extend the limited dataset, a PCA color augmentation process is utilized before images are input into the LeukemiaNet. This augmentation method enhances the accuracy of our proposed CNN architecture from 96.9% to 97.2% for distinguishing ALL, AML, and normal cell images.

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