Role of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Haematology

A special issue of Diagnostics (ISSN 2075-4418). This special issue belongs to the section "Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Diagnostics".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 3524

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1. Senior Consultant, Hematology and BMT, Doha, Qatar
2. Program Director, Hematology Fellowship Program, Doha, Qatar
3. Associate Professor of Medicine, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar
4. National Center for Cancer Care and Research, Doha, Qatar
5. Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
Interests: hematology; oncology; insulin resistance; diabetes; cancer biology; cancer biomarkers; cancer research; flow cytometry; treatment; infection; health education

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Digitalization of patients records and integration of genomic methods into clinical practice have resulted in an unprecedented wealth of data. Machine learning is part of artificial intelligence that attempts to computationally extract meaningful insights from complex data structures. Applications of machine learning in hematological scenarios are steadily increasing. There is both much hope and hype surrounding the application of machine learning in medicine. Terms such as artificial intelligence, precision medicine, machine learning and deep learning are becoming ever more frequent in the medical literature, Recent findings: AI has been employed in the analysis of hematopathological, radiographic, laboratory, genomic, pharmacological, and chemical data to better inform diagnosis, prognosis, treatment planning, and foundational knowledge related to benign and malignant hematology. Artificial intelligence techniques ranging from machine learning to deep learning are prevalent in healthcare for disease diagnosis, drug discovery, and patient risk identification. In this special issue, we would like to shed light on artificial intelligence and machine learning in Hematology.

Dr. Mohamed A. Yassin
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • artificial intelligence
  • machine learning
  • hematology
  • hematopathological
  • benign and malignant hematology
 

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Blood Slide Image Analysis to Classify WBC Types for Prediction Haematology Based on a Hybrid Model of CNN and Handcrafted Features
by Fekry Olayah, Ebrahim Mohammed Senan, Ibrahim Abdulrab Ahmed and Bakri Awaji
Diagnostics 2023, 13(11), 1899; https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13111899 - 29 May 2023
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White blood cells (WBCs) are one of the main components of blood produced by the bone marrow. WBCs are part of the immune system that protects the body from infectious diseases and an increase or decrease in the amount of any type that [...] Read more.
White blood cells (WBCs) are one of the main components of blood produced by the bone marrow. WBCs are part of the immune system that protects the body from infectious diseases and an increase or decrease in the amount of any type that causes a particular disease. Thus, recognizing the WBC types is essential for diagnosing the patient’s health and identifying the disease. Analyzing blood samples to determine the amount and WBC types requires experienced doctors. Artificial intelligence techniques were applied to analyze blood samples and classify their types to help doctors distinguish between types of infectious diseases due to increased or decreased WBC amounts. This study developed strategies for analyzing blood slide images to classify WBC types. The first strategy is to classify WBC types by the SVM-CNN technique. The second strategy for classifying WBC types is by SVM based on hybrid CNN features, which are called VGG19-ResNet101-SVM, ResNet101-MobileNet-SVM, and VGG19-ResNet101-MobileNet-SVM techniques. The third strategy for classifying WBC types by FFNN is based on a hybrid model of CNN and handcrafted features. With MobileNet and handcrafted features, FFNN achieved an AUC of 99.43%, accuracy of 99.80%, precision of 99.75%, specificity of 99.75%, and sensitivity of 99.68%. Full article
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