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An Intelligent Decision Support System for Leukaemia Diagnosis using Microscopic Blood Images

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posted on 2023-07-26, 14:17 authored by Siew Chin Neoh, Worawut Srisukkham, Li Zhang, Stephen Todryk, Brigit Greystoke, Chee Peng Lim, Mohammed Alamgir Hossain, Nauman Aslam
This research proposes an intelligent decision support system for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia diagnosis from microscopic blood images. A novel clustering algorithm with stimulating discriminant measures (SDM) of both within- and between-cluster scatter variances is proposed to produce robust segmentation of nucleus and cytoplasm of lymphocytes/lymphoblasts. Specifically, the proposed between-cluster evaluation is formulated based on the trade-off of several between-cluster measures of well-known feature extraction methods. The SDM measures are used in conjuction with Genetic Algorithm for clustering nucleus, cytoplasm, and background regions. Subsequently, a total of eighty features consisting of shape, texture, and colour information of the nucleus and cytoplasm subimages are extracted. A number of classifiers (multi-layer perceptron, Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Dempster-Shafer ensemble) are employed for lymphocyte/lymphoblast classification. Evaluated with the ALL-IDB2 database, the proposed SDM-based clustering overcomes the shortcomings of Fuzzy C-means which focuses purely on within-cluster scatter variance. It also outperforms Linear Discriminant Analysis and Fuzzy Compactness and Separation for nucleus-cytoplasm separation. The overall system achieves superior recognition rates of 96.72% and 96.67% accuracies using bootstrapping and 10-fold cross validation with Dempster-Shafer and SVM, respectively. The results also compare favourably with those reported in the literature, indicating the usefulness of the proposed SDM-based clustering method.

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Refereed

  • Yes

Volume

5

Issue number

1

Page range

14938

Publication title

Scientific Reports

ISSN

2045-2322

Publisher

Nature Research

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  • Published version

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  • eng

Legacy posted date

2018-03-15

Legacy creation date

2018-03-15

Legacy Faculty/School/Department

ARCHIVED Faculty of Science & Technology (until September 2018)

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