Article: Deep convolutional neural network applied to Trypanosoma cruzi detection in blood samples Journal: International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation (IJBIC) 2022 Vol.19 No.1 pp.1 - 17 Abstract: Standard diagnosis of Chagas disease, during its acute phase, is based on Trypanosoma cruzi visualisation through microscopy applied to peripheral blood slides. We apply MobileNet V2 convolutional layers to image tiles from acute-phase peripheral blood samples, and feed the resulting 1,280-dimensional feature vectors into a single-neuron classifier. Using sample image tiles from a reduced, 12-slide, dataset, we achieve accuracy equal to 96.4% on a balanced validation subset. On image tiles from a 13th blood smear slide, test accuracy is estimated at 72.0%. We extend the dataset with images from six additional slides, which include two thick blood samples, and then test accuracy on two extra slides improves to 95.4%. Examples of raster scans with overlapping windows illustrate the detection of all positive instances of Trypanosoma cruzi in blood smear and thick blood images, without any false alarm. Furthermore, we start an investigation of boosting algorithm effects on classifier performance. Inderscience Publishers - linking academia, business and industry through research

Title: Deep convolutional neural network applied to Trypanosoma cruzi detection in blood samples

Authors: André S. Pereira; Leonardo O. Mazza; Pedro C.C. Pinto; José Gabriel R.C. Gomes; Nadia Nedjah; Daniel F. Vanzan; Alexandre S. Pyrrho; Juliana G.M. Soares

Addresses: IBCCF, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ' COPPE, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ' COPPE, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ' COPPE, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ' Engineering Faculty, State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ' Faculty of Pharmacy, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ' Faculty of Pharmacy, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ' Laboratory of Cognitive Physiology, IBCCF, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Abstract: Standard diagnosis of Chagas disease, during its acute phase, is based on Trypanosoma cruzi visualisation through microscopy applied to peripheral blood slides. We apply MobileNet V2 convolutional layers to image tiles from acute-phase peripheral blood samples, and feed the resulting 1,280-dimensional feature vectors into a single-neuron classifier. Using sample image tiles from a reduced, 12-slide, dataset, we achieve accuracy equal to 96.4% on a balanced validation subset. On image tiles from a 13th blood smear slide, test accuracy is estimated at 72.0%. We extend the dataset with images from six additional slides, which include two thick blood samples, and then test accuracy on two extra slides improves to 95.4%. Examples of raster scans with overlapping windows illustrate the detection of all positive instances of Trypanosoma cruzi in blood smear and thick blood images, without any false alarm. Furthermore, we start an investigation of boosting algorithm effects on classifier performance.

Keywords: Chagas disease; Trypanosoma cruzi; deep convolutional neural networks; CNNs.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBIC.2022.120749

International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation, 2022 Vol.19 No.1, pp.1 - 17

Received: 17 Feb 2021
Accepted: 21 Jul 2021
Published online: 07 Feb 2022 *

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