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HIGH-THROUGHPUT MICROSCOPE-BASED DEVICE DEVELOPMENT FOR ANALYSIS OF PERIPHERAL BLOOD SMEARS FOR ANEMIA SCREENING
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  • Arunnagiri A M,
  • Sasikala M,
  • Ramadass N,
  • Mullai Venthan S
Arunnagiri A M
Anna University College of Engineering Guindy

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Sasikala M
Anna University College of Engineering Guindy
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Ramadass N
Anna University College of Engineering Guindy
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Mullai Venthan S
Anna University College of Engineering Guindy
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Abstract

The conventional method of screening for anemia requires the pathologist or technician to manually focus the microscope and examine one slide at a time, making the process tedious, especially in health emergencies. Therefore, the research work aims to design and develop an automated high-throughput optical digital microscope-based device for scanning and capturing blood smear images using Laplacian based auto focusing algorithm of 10 peripheral blood smear slides sequentially in a batch focusing on a particular field of view at an objective lens magnification of 40x. The acquired images are segmented using YOLO(You Only Look Once) algorithm to analyze the morphology of red blood cells (RBC) to screen for anemia. with a multilayer perceptron (MLP) classifier images are categorized into macrocytic, microcytic, normocytic subclasses and normal class. The trained model is embedded in a smartphone application to map classified anemic images by geographic location, creating anemia clusters.
17 Nov 2024Submitted to Journal of Biophotonics
18 Nov 2024Submission Checks Completed
18 Nov 2024Assigned to Editor
18 Nov 2024Review(s) Completed, Editorial Evaluation Pending
18 Nov 2024Reviewer(s) Assigned