Detection Malaria Base Microscope Digital Image with Convolutional Neural Network

Abstract

Malaria is a tropical disease that infects human red blood cells caused by infection with the plasmodium parasite. Plasmodium parasites spread to humans through female Anopheles mosquitoes and can reproduce in human blood cells. Malaria is a health problem that is at risk of causing other health problems such as anemia and even death. The current gold standard for malaria diagnosis is laboratory diagnosis by microscopic examination to find the malaria parasite through the blood cells of the patient. However, the diagnosis of malaria through microscopic observation of blood cells has the potential to take a long time, because the plasmodium parasite has a very small size. The malaria detection system using the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) method is designed to detect malaria in human blood cells. CNN is a machine learning method designed to classify objects in an image. The system was built in three stages of development, namely the development of a CNN model for malaria detection, software development and hardware development. The hardware components used in the system include Raspberry pi, Raspberry Pi camera module, and LCD. The results of the malaria detection test using the CNN model gave an accuracy of 98.76% which was tested on blood cell images from a microscope