Detection of WBC, RBC, and Platelets in Blood Samples Using Deep Learning

Abstract

A blood count is one of the most important diagnostic tools in medicine and one of the most common procedures. It can reveal important changes in the body and is commonly used as the first stage in the process of evaluating patients' health. Even though this is a common practice, delivering examinations in laboratories can be difficult due to the availability of expensive technology that requires frequent maintenance. This study is developing an alternative deep learning computational model capable of automatically detecting cells in images of blood samples. Using object detection libraries, it was possible to train a model that was focused on this task and capable of detecting cells in images with adequate accuracy. When the identification of cells in images of blood samples was taken into account in the best results obtained, it was possible to count white cells with an accuracy of one hundred percent, red cells with an accuracy of 89%, and platelets with an accuracy of 96%, which generated subsidies to develop the primary components of a blood count. The components that were supposed to classify the various types of white cells were not carried out due to the limits of the dataset provided. On the other hand, the study can be broadened to include further works that deal with this issue because it produced satisfactory results.