Performance Evaluating of Deep Learning Models for Leukemia Detection Using Microscopic Blood Images
摘要
This research work is focused on the automated detection of leukemia using five different models, and leukemia is a fatal blood cancer. It is necessary to detect it early and accurately to save lives, because traditional methods for detecting leukemia are slow, costly and require experts. This research work uses five different models: ConvNext, Xception, InceptionResNet, ViT-b-16, and MobileNet, and it uses 20,000 blood smear images. These im-ages are of five classes: ALL, AML, CLL, CML, and Healthy, thus preprocessing includes resizing, removing noise, enhancing contrast, normalizing, and augmenting data. Previous studies predominantly focused on binary classification (e.g., normal vs. abnormal) or limited subtypes; this work tack-les five distinct classes, addressing the clinical need to differentiate leukemia subtypes. While ViT-b-16 achieved 86.78% accuracy (lower than some prior studies), the increased diagnostic complexity of fine-grained classification enhances clinical utility. ViT-b-16 also shows some overfitting behavior and misclassified some images. Therefore, this study successfully provides an in-sight on how AI could be used to help detect leukemia, so it has the potential to improve the detection process.