A Neural-Network-Based Approach to White Blood Cell Classification

This paper presents a new white blood cell classification system for the recognition of five types of white blood cells. We propose a new segmentation algorithm for the segmentation of white blood cells from smear images. The core idea of the proposed segmentation algorithm is to find a discriminating region of white blood cells on the HSI color space. Pixels with color lying in the discriminating region described by an ellipsoidal region will be regarded as the nucleus and granule of cytoplasm of a white blood cell. Then, through a further morphological process, we can segment a white blood cell from a smear image. Three kinds of features (i.e., geometrical features, color features, and LDP-based texture features) are extracted from the segmented cell. These features are fed into three different kinds of neural networks to recognize the types of the white blood cells. To test the effectiveness of the proposed white blood cell classification system, a total of 450 white blood cells images were used. The highest overall correct recognition rate could reach 99.11% correct. Simulation results showed that the proposed white blood cell classification system was very competitive to some existing systems.

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Classification of White Blood Cell Abnormalities for Early Detection of Myeloproliferative Neoplasms Syndrome Based on K-Nearest Neighborr

Scientific Journal of Informatics ◽

10.15294/sji.v7i1.24372 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 136-142

Author(s):

Zilvanhisna Emka Fitri ◽

Lindri Nalentine Yolanda Syahputri ◽

Arizal Mujibtamala Nanda Imron

Keyword(s):

Blood Cell ◽

White Blood Cell ◽

Blood Cells ◽

Myeloproliferative Neoplasms ◽

White Blood Cells ◽

Color Space ◽

Hematopoietic Stem ◽

Large Numbers ◽

Initial Symptoms ◽

Processing Techniques

The myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs) are clonal hematopoietic stem cell disorders characterized by dysregulated proliferation and expansion of one or more of the myeloid lineages. The initial symptoms of MPN is a bone marrow abnormalities when producing red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets in large numbers and uncontrolled. An automatic and accurate white blood cell abnormality classification system is needed. This research uses digital image processing techniques such as conversion to the modified CIELab color space, segmentation techniques based on threshold values and feature extraction processes that produce four morphological features consisting of area, perimeter, metric and compactness. then the four features become input to the K-Nearest Neighborr (KNN) method. The testing process is based on variations in the value of K to get the best accuracy percentage of 94.3% tested on 159 test data.

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White Blood Cells and Severe COVID-19: A Mendelian Randomization Study

Journal of Personalized Medicine ◽

10.3390/jpm11030195 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (3) ◽

pp. 195

Author(s):

Yitang Sun ◽

Jingqi Zhou ◽

Kaixiong Ye

Keyword(s):

Blood Cell ◽

Cell Count ◽

White Blood Cell Count ◽

White Blood Cell ◽

Blood Cells ◽

Mendelian Randomization ◽

Association Studies ◽

White Blood Cells ◽

Genome Wide Association Studies ◽

Blood Cell Count

Increasing evidence shows that white blood cells are associated with the risk of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), but the direction and causality of this association are not clear. To evaluate the causal associations between various white blood cell traits and the COVID-19 susceptibility and severity, we conducted two-sample bidirectional Mendelian Randomization (MR) analyses with summary statistics from the largest and most recent genome-wide association studies. Our MR results indicated causal protective effects of higher basophil count, basophil percentage of white blood cells, and myeloid white blood cell count on severe COVID-19, with odds ratios (OR) per standard deviation increment of 0.75 (95% CI: 0.60–0.95), 0.70 (95% CI: 0.54–0.92), and 0.85 (95% CI: 0.73–0.98), respectively. Neither COVID-19 severity nor susceptibility was associated with white blood cell traits in our reverse MR results. Genetically predicted high basophil count, basophil percentage of white blood cells, and myeloid white blood cell count are associated with a lower risk of developing severe COVID-19. Individuals with a lower genetic capacity for basophils are likely at risk, while enhancing the production of basophils may be an effective therapeutic strategy.

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Klasifikasi Sel Darah Putih dan Sel Limfoblas Menggunakan Metode Multilayer Perceptron Backpropagation

IJEIS (Indonesian Journal of Electronics and Instrumentation Systems) ◽

10.22146/ijeis.49943 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 173

Author(s):

Apri Nur Liyantoko ◽

Ika Candradewi ◽

Agus Harjoko

Keyword(s):

Blood Cell ◽

White Blood Cell ◽

Blood Cells ◽

White Blood Cells ◽

Back Propagation ◽

Cell Types ◽

Diagnostic Process ◽

The Subject ◽

Processing Techniques

Leukemia is a type of cancer that is on white blood cell. This disease are characterized by abundance of abnormal white blood cell called lymphoblast in the bone marrow. Classification of blood cell types, calculation of the ratio of cell types and comparison with normal blood cells can be the subject of diagnosing this disease. The diagnostic process is carried out manually by hematologists through microscopic image. This method is likely to provide a subjective result and time-consuming.The application of digital image processing techniques and machine learning in the process of classifying white blood cells can provide more objective results. This research used thresholding method as segmentation and multilayer method of back propagation perceptron with variations in the extraction of textural features, geometry, and colors. The results of segmentation testing in this study amounted to 68.70%. Whereas the classification test shows that the combination of feature extraction of GLCM features, geometry features, and color features gives the best results. This test produces an accuration value 91.43%, precision value of 50.63%, sensitivity 56.67%, F1Score 51.95%, and specitifity 94.16%.

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White Blood Cells Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence ◽

10.1142/s0218001418570069 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 32 (09) ◽

pp. 1857006 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Ming Jiang ◽

Liu Cheng ◽

Feiwei Qin ◽

Lian Du ◽

Min Zhang

Keyword(s):

Blood Cell ◽

White Blood Cell ◽

Blood Cells ◽

Network Architecture ◽

White Blood Cells ◽

Activation Function ◽

Training Set ◽

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks ◽

Cell Image ◽

Attending Physician

The necessary step in the diagnosis of leukemia by the attending physician is to classify the white blood cells in the bone marrow, which requires the attending physician to have a wealth of clinical experience. Now the deep learning is very suitable for the study of image recognition classification, and the effect is not good enough to directly use some famous convolution neural network (CNN) models, such as AlexNet model, GoogleNet model, and VGGFace model. In this paper, we construct a new CNN model called WBCNet model that can fully extract features of the microscopic white blood cell image by combining batch normalization algorithm, residual convolution architecture, and improved activation function. WBCNet model has 33 layers of network architecture, whose speed has greatly been improved compared with the traditional CNN model in training period, and it can quickly identify the category of white blood cell images. The accuracy rate is 77.65% for Top-1 and 98.65% for Top-5 on the training set, while 83% for Top-1 on the test set. This study can help doctors diagnose leukemia, and reduce misdiagnosis rate.

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STUDIES ON THE PHYSIOLOGY OF THE WHITE BLOOD CELL

Blood ◽

10.1182/blood.v2.3.235.235 ◽

1947 ◽

Vol 2 (3) ◽

pp. 235-243 ◽

Cited By ~ 22

Author(s):

RICHARD WAGNER

Keyword(s):

Blood Cell ◽

White Blood Cell ◽

Blood Cells ◽

Glycogen Content ◽

Striated Muscle ◽

White Blood Cells ◽

Glycogen Storage ◽

Different Types ◽

Blast Cells ◽

Reducing Substances

Abstract The technic of determining glycogen in isolated white blood cells was applied to the study of the different types of leukemia and of polycythemia, in order to obtain information on the physiology of the white blood cell. From this study it is concluded that the granulated leukocyte is the only carrier of glycogen in whole blood. The "reducing substances" in lymphocytes and blast cells are not considered as true glycogen. The glycogen content of wet white blood cells in the rabbit amounts to about 1 per cent. In the human being a range of from 0.17 to 0.67 per cent was calculated. In disease higher percentages occur, in polycythemia up to 1.64 per cent and in glycogen storage disease up to 3.05 per cent. The glycogen concentration of normal white blood cells is within the same range as that of the striated muscle.

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Detection and Classification of White Blood Cells through Deep Learning Techniques

International Journal of Online and Biomedical Engineering (iJOE) ◽

10.3991/ijoe.v16i15.15481 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 16 (15) ◽

pp. 94

Author(s):

Samir Abou El-Seoud ◽

Muaad Hammuda Siala ◽

Gerard McKee

Keyword(s):

Neural Network ◽

Blood Cell ◽

Convolutional Neural Network ◽

White Blood Cell ◽

Blood Cells ◽

Human Life ◽

White Blood Cells ◽

Learning Techniques ◽

Normal White Blood Cell ◽

High Level

Leukemia is one of the deadliest diseases in human life, it is a type of cancer that hits blood cells. The task of diagnosing Leukemia is time consuming and tedious for doctors; it is also challenging to determine the level and type of Leukemia. The diagnoses of Leukemia are achieved through identifying the changes on the White blood Cells (WBC). WBCs are divided into five types: Neutrophils, Eosinophils, Basophils, Monocytes, and Lymphocytes. In this paper, the authors propose a Convolutional Neural Network to detect and classify normal white blood cells. The program will learn about the shape and type of normal WBC by performing the following two tasks. The first task is identifying high level features of a normal white blood cell. The second task is classifying the normal white blood cell according to its type. Using a Convolutional Neural Network CNN, the system will be able to detect normal WBCs by comparing them with the high-level features of normal WBC. This process of identifying and classifying WBC can be vital for doctors and medical staff to make a decision. The proposed network achieves an accuracy up to 96.78% with a dataset including 10,000 blood cell images.

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White blood cells and severe COVID-19: a Mendelian randomization study

10.1101/2020.10.14.20212993 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Yitang Sun ◽

Jingqi Zhou ◽

Kaixiong Ye

Keyword(s):

Blood Cell ◽

Cell Count ◽

White Blood Cell Count ◽

White Blood Cell ◽

Blood Cells ◽

Mendelian Randomization ◽

White Blood Cells ◽

Causal Effects ◽

Blood Cell Count ◽

Granulocyte Count

AbstractBackgroundThe pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has rapidly emerged to seriously threaten public health. We aimed to investigate whether white blood cell traits have potential causal effects on severe COVID-19 using Mendelian randomization (MR).MethodsTo evaluate the causal associations between various white blood cell traits and severe COVID-19, we conducted a two-sample MR analysis with summary statistics from recent large genome-wide association studies.ResultsOur MR results indicated potential causal associations of white blood cell count, myeloid white blood cell count, and granulocyte count with severe COVID-19, with odds ratios (OR) of 0.84 (95% CI: 0.72-0.98), 0.81 (95% CI: 0.70-0.94), and 0.84 (95% CI: 0.71-0.99), respectively. Increasing eosinophil percentage of white blood cells was associated with a higher risk of severe COVID-19 (OR: 1.22, 95% CI: 1.03-1.45).ConclusionsOur results suggest the potential causal effects of lower white blood cell count, lower myeloid white blood cell count, lower granulocyte count, and higher eosinophil percentage of white blood cells on an increased risk of severe COVID-19.

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Risk Factors of White Blood Cell Progression Among Patients With Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia at Felege Hiwot Referral Hospital, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia

Cancer Informatics ◽

10.1177/11769351211069902 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 21 ◽

pp. 117693512110699

Author(s):

Gedam Derbew Addisia ◽

Awoke Seyoum Tegegne ◽

Denekew Bitew Belay ◽

Mitiku Wale Muluneh ◽

Mahider Abere Kassaw

Keyword(s):

Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia ◽

Blood Cell ◽

White Blood Cell ◽

Blood Cells ◽

White Blood Cells ◽

Lymphocytic Leukemia ◽

Bahir Dar ◽

Felege Hiwot Referral Hospital ◽

Wbc Count

Background: Leukemia is a type of cancers that start in the bone marrow and produce a serious number of abnormal white blood cells. Bleeding and bruising problems, fatigue, fever, and an increased risk of infection are among symptoms of the disease. The main objective of this study is to identify the determinant of the progression rate of white blood cells among patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia at Felege Hiwot Referral Hospital (FHRH), Bahir Dar, Ethiopia. Methods: A retrospective study design was conducted on 312 patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia at FHRH, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia under treatment from 1 January 2017 to 31 December 2019. A linear mixed-effects model was considered for the progression of the white blood cell data. Results: The estimated coefficient of the fixed effect intercept was 84.68, indicating that the average white blood cell (WBC) count of the patients was 84.68 at baseline time by excluding all covariates in the model ( P-value <.001). Male sex ( β = 2.92, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.58, 0.5.25), age ( β = .17, 95% CI 0.08, 0.28), widowed/divorced marital status ( β = 3.30, 95% CI 0.03, 6.57), medium chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) stage ( β = −4.34, 95% CI −6.57, −2.68), high CLL stage ( β = −2.76, 95% CI −4.86, −0.67), hemoglobin ( β = .15, 95% CI 0.07, 0.22), platelet ( β = .09, 95% CI 0.02, 0.17), lymphocytes ( β = .16, 95% CI 0.03, 0.29), red blood cell (RBC) ( β = .17, 95% CI 0.09, 0.25), and follow-up time ( β = .27, 95% CI 0.19, 0.36) were significantly associated with the average WBC count of chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients. Conclusions: The finding showed that age, sex, lymphocytic, stage of chronic lymphocytic leukemia, marital status, platelet, hemoglobin, RBC, and follow-up time were significantly associated with the average WBC count of chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients. Therefore, health care providers should give due attention and prioritize those identified factors and give frequent counseling about improving the health of chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients.

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Changes in white blood cells in sheep blood during selenium supplementation

Veterinární Medicína ◽

10.17221/1947-vetmed ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 53 (No. 5) ◽

pp. 255-259 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

L. Pisek ◽

J. Travnicek ◽

J. Salat ◽

V. Kroupova ◽

M. Soch

Keyword(s):

Blood Cell ◽

White Blood Cell ◽

Blood Cells ◽

White Blood Cells ◽

Microscopic Analysis ◽

Blood Parameters ◽

Selenium Supplementation ◽

Cell Parameters ◽

Organic Selenium ◽

The Impact

The aim of the experiment was to evaluate the impact of selenium supplementation on white blood cell parameters in the blood of ewes. The total white blood cell (WBC) and differentiation of leukocytes in blood smear were detected by a microscopic analysis, and the CD4+ and CD8+ subsets were detected by flow cytometry. A decrease in the count of WBC was recorded during pregnancy; it was statistically significant only in the group supplemented with organic selenium. In the postpartal period there was a statistically significant increase in the percentages of CD4+ and CD8+ subsets but differences between the groups were not statistically significant. The results of the experiment documented that the supplementation of different forms of selenium did not markedly influence the dynamics of blood parameters in non-pregnant, pregnant and lactating ewes if the intake of vitamins and other essential microelements was adequate.

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Effect of Fluticasone and Salmeterol on Tracheal Responsiveness to Ovalbumin and Lung Inflammation, Administrated during and after Sensitization

The Scientific World JOURNAL ◽

10.1155/2014/865292 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 2014 ◽

pp. 1-8 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Zahra Gholamnezhad ◽

Mohammad Hossain Boskabady ◽

Mohammad Reza Khazdair ◽

Mahmoud Hosseini ◽

Mahdi Abbasnejad

Keyword(s):

Fluticasone Propionate ◽

Blood Cell ◽

White Blood Cell ◽

Blood Cells ◽

Lung Inflammation ◽

White Blood Cells ◽

Control Group ◽

Treatment Groups ◽

Group B ◽

Differential White Blood Cell

The effect of duration of administration of fluticasone propionate and salmeterol on tracheal responsiveness to ovalbumin and total and differential white blood cell in sensitized guinea pig was examined. Six groups of guinea pigs (n=7) were sensitized to ovalbumin. Three groups of them were subjected to inhaled fluticasone propionate and salmeterol, one group during sensitization (A), one group after that (for 18 days, B), and the other one during sensitization but with 18 days delay before measurements (C). Three other groups were treated with placebo in the same manner. The tracheal responsiveness to ovalbumin and total and differential white blood cells of three placebo groups were significantly higher than those of control group (P<0.001for all cases). Tracheal responsiveness to ovalbumin and total and differential white blood cell in treated groups with fluticasone propionate and salmeterol were significantly decreased compared to those of placebo groups (nonsignificant toP<0.001). The improvement in all variables in treatment groups A and C were more pronounced than group B. The results showed that fluticasone propionate and salmeterol had a prevention effect on tracheal hyperresponsiveness to ovalbumin and lung inflammation which was more pronounced when administered during than after sensitization.

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