Deep-CNN Model for Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia (ALL) Classification Using Microscopic Blood Images: Global Research

Introduction

Blood is made up of plasma and three different types of cells: white blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets, each of which has a specific function. Chemical elements are transported from the lungs to the body’s tissues by red blood cells, and vice versa. The body’s ability to fight diseases and infections is aided by white blood cells. Platelets aid in clotting and bleeding control (A. Sindhu & S. Meera., 2015). Malignant neoplastic illness is a type of blood cancer in which the number of white blood cells grows rapidly and the cells become immature, interfering with other blood cells, including red blood cells and platelets (Chatap, N., & Shibu, S., 2014). The white blood corpuscle to white blood corpuscle magnitude ratio in our body is 1000:1. It means that there is one white blood cell for every thousand red blood cells. There are two types of white blood cells that can develop into leukaemia:

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  Lymphoid cells

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  Myeloid cells

White blood corpuscle or lymphocytic leukaemia is caused by tumour cells, while myelogenous or chronic leukaemia is produced by myeloid cells (Athira Krishnan, S. K. (2014). Leucaemia is divided into two categories: acute and chronic, based on the rate at which the cells multiply. In leukaemia, the aberrant blood cells are sometimes immature blasts (young cells) that don’t work correctly (S., D. Mohapatra et al., 2010). These cells are rapidly multiplying. If leukaemia isn’t treated right away, it will swiftly worsen. In leukaemia, young blood cells are produced, but mature purposeful cells are also produced. Leukemia causes blasts to grow slowly (Ritter, N & Cooper, J., 2007). It takes the disease longer to progress. The four most common types of leukaemia are:

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  Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL)

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  Acute myelogenous leukaemia (AML)

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  Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL)

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  Chronic myelogenous leukaemia (CML

Leukemia is a potentially lethal illness that puts many sufferers’ lives at jeopardy. Its rate of remission will be significantly improved if it is detected early (Dhiman, G et al., 2021). Using transfer learning, this project presents two machine-driven classification models supported by blood microscopic images to detect leukaemia, as opposed to traditional approaches that have numerous drawbacks. Blood microscopic images are pre-processed in the first model, and options are retrieved by a pre-trained deep convolutional neural network termed AlexNet, which makes classifications in accordance with a number of well-known classifiers. When pre-processing the pictures in the second model, AlexNet is fine-tuned for each feature extraction and classification. Experiments were carried out on a dataset of 2820 images, indicating that the second model outperforms the main due to its 100% classification accuracy (Zhao J et al., 2016).

Deep learning has recently made improvements in a variety of disciplines, including laptop vision, speech processing, and visual perception. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and deep neural networks (DNNs) are utilised to develop computer-aided diagnostic systems.

Deep neural network analysis and training, on the other hand, are time-consuming and difficult processes. As a result, rather than developing a deep neural network from the ground up, we prefer to employ the concept of transfer learning, in which a deep network that has found success in resolving one drawback is tweaked to overcome another.