HIGH-THROUGHPUT MICROSCOPE-BASED DEVICE DEVELOPMENT FOR ANALYSIS OF
PERIPHERAL BLOOD SMEARS FOR ANEMIA SCREENING
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.