Improving Malaria Detection Using L1 Regularization Neural Network

Abstract

Malaria is a huge public health concern around the world. The conventional method of diagnosing malaria is for qualified technicians to visually examine blood smears for parasite-infected red blood cells under a microscope. This procedure is ineffective. It takes time and requires the expertise of a skilled specialist. The diagnosis is dependent on the individual performing the examination’s experience and understanding. This article offers a new and robust deep learning model for automatically classifying malaria cells as infected or uninfected. This approach is based on a convolutional neural network (CNN). It improved by the regularization method on a publicly available dataset which contains 27, 558 cell images with equal instances of parasitized and un-infected cells from the National Institute of health. The performance of our proposed model is 99.70% of accuracy and 0.0476 loss value.