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This paper proposes a novel automatic classification framework for the recognition of five types of white blood cells. Segmenting complete white blood cells from blood smears images and extracting advantageous features from them remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Na Dong , Meng-die Zhai , Jian-fang Chang , Chun-ho Wu

The diagnosis of blood-based diseases often involves identifying and characterizing patient blood samples. Automated methods to detect and classify blood cell subtypes have important medical applications. Automated medical image processing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Sai Sukruth Bezugam

Recently, a lot of automated white blood cells (WBC) or leukocyte classification techniques have been developed. However, all of these methods only utilize a single modality microscopic image i.e. either blood smear or fluorescence based,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-18 Litao Yang , Deval Mehta , Dwarikanath Mahapatra , Zongyuan Ge

Automated white blood cell (WBC) classification is essential for leukemia screening but remains challenged by extreme class imbalance, long-tail distributions, and domain shift, leading deep models to overfit dominant classes and fail on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Duc T. Nguyen , Hoang-Long Nguyen , Huy-Hieu Pham

The classification of white blood cells (WBCs) from peripheral blood smears is critical for the diagnosis of leukemia. However, automated approaches still struggle due to challenges including class imbalance, domain shift, and morphological…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Antony Gitau , Martin Paulson , Bjørn-Jostein Singstad , Karl Thomas Hjelmervik , Ola Marius Lysaker , Veralia Gabriela Sanchez

Biomedical imaging and RNA sequencing with single-cell resolution improves our understanding of white blood cell diseases like leukemia. By combining morphological and transcriptomic data, we can gain insights into cellular functions and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Gizem Mert , Ario Sadafi , Raheleh Salehi , Nassir Navab , Carsten Marr

Computer-based analysis of Wireless Capsule Endoscopy (WCE) is crucial. However, a medically annotated WCE dataset for training and evaluation of automatic classification, detection, and segmentation of bleeding and non-bleeding frames is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Palak Handa , Manas Dhir , Amirreza Mahbod , Florian Schwarzhans , Ramona Woitek , Nidhi Goel , Deepak Gunjan

Automated white blood cell (WBC) classification is essential for scalable leukaemia screening. However, real-world deployment is challenged by domain shifts caused by staining protocols, scanner characteristics, and inter-laboratory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Ruyi Dai , Tingkwong Ng , Hao Chen

Human blood primarily comprises plasma, red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. It plays a vital role in transporting nutrients to different organs, where it stores essential health-related data about the human body. Blood cells…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-08 Rabia Asghar , Sanjay Kumar , Paul Hynds , Abeera Mahfooz

Circulating blood cell clusters (CCCs) containing red blood cells (RBCs), white blood cells(WBCs), and platelets are significant biomarkers linked to conditions like thrombosis, infection, and inflammation. Flow cytometry, paired with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Suqiang Ma , Subhadeep Sengupta , Yao Lee , Beikang Gu , Xianyan Chen , Xianqiao Wang , Yang Liu , Mengjia Xu , Galit H. Frydman , He Li

We present WBCBench 2026, an ISBI challenge and benchmark for automated WBC classification designed to stress-test algorithms under three key difficulties: (i) severe class imbalance across 13 morphologically fine-grained WBC classes, (ii)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Xin Tian , Xudong Ma , Tianqi Yang , Alin Achim , Bartłomiej W Papież , Phandee Watanaboonyongcharoen , Nantheera Anantrasirichai

Diagnosis of hematological malignancies depends on accurate identification of white blood cells in peripheral blood smears. Deep learning techniques are emerging as a viable solution to scale and optimize this process by automatic cell…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Michael Deutges , Ario Sadafi , Nassir Navab , Carsten Marr

Accurate morphological classification of white blood cells (WBCs) is an important step in the diagnosis of leukemia, a disease in which nonfunctional blast cells accumulate in the bone marrow. Recently, deep convolutional neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Rao Muhammad Umer , Armin Gruber , Sayedali Shetab Boushehri , Christian Metak , Carsten Marr

Label-free single-cell imaging offers a scalable, non-invasive alternative to fluorescence-based cytometry, yet inferring molecular phenotypes directly from bright-field morphology remains challenging. We present a unified Deep Learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Saqib Nazir , Ardhendu Behera

We present a new annotated microscopic cellular image dataset to improve the effectiveness of machine learning methods for cellular image analysis. Cell counting is an important step in cell analysis. Typically, domain experts manually…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-20 Abdurahman Ali Mohammed , Catherine Fonder , Donald S. Sakaguchi , Wallapak Tavanapong , Surya K. Mallapragada , Azeez Idris

The detection and segmentation of white blood cells in blood smear images is a key step in medical diagnostics, supporting various downstream tasks such as automated blood cell counting, morphological analysis, cell classification, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Michael Deutges , Chen Yang , Raheleh Salehi , Nassir Navab , Carsten Marr , Ario Sadafi

Although deep learning algorithms have been intensively developed for computer-aided tuberculosis diagnosis (CTD), they mainly depend on carefully annotated datasets, leading to much time and resource consumption. Weakly supervised learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Chengwei Pan , Gangming Zhao , Junjie Fang , Baolian Qi , Jiaheng Liu , Chaowei Fang , Dingwen Zhang , Jinpeng Li , Yizhou Yu

Machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) models have been employed to significantly improve analyses of medical imagery, with these approaches used to enhance the accuracy of prediction and classification. Model predictions and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-22 Rabia Asghar , Sanjay Kumar , Paul Hynds , Arslan Shaukat

Computational microscopy, in which hardware and algorithms of an imaging system are jointly designed, shows promise for making imaging systems that cost less, perform more robustly, and collect new types of information. Often, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Henry Pinkard , Cherry Liu , Fanice Nyatigo , Daniel A. Fletcher , Laura Waller

Canine mammary carcinoma (CMC) has been used as a model to investigate the pathogenesis of human breast cancer and the same grading scheme is commonly used to assess tumor malignancy in both. One key component of this grading scheme is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Marc Aubreville , Christof A. Bertram , Taryn A. Donovan , Christian Marzahl , Andreas Maier , Robert Klopfleisch