Review Article

Machine Learning in Detection and Classification of Leukemia Using Smear Blood Images: A Systematic Review

Table 4

Characteristics of studies that used machine learning algorithms in the detection and classification of blood smears.

First author, year of publication, and countryAim of the studyDataML methodValidation resultsMore information

Al-jaboriy et al., 2019, Malaysia [17]ALL segmentationBlood smear images (ALL-IDB)ANNAccuracy = 97%The proposed model detected 625 cells out of 540 WBC

Al-Tahhan et al., 2020, Egypt [19]Automatic detection ALLBlood smear images (ALL-IDB2)KNN
SVM
ANN
Accuracy of testing = 100%
F1-score = 100%
Quadratic SVM has the best performance in detecting ALL among ALL-IDB2 dataset

Bodzas et al., 2020, Czech [24]Automated detection of ALLBlood smear images (local)SVM
ANN
Sensitivity = 100%
Specificity = 95.31%
Artificial neural network has the best performance in detecting ALL

Boldú et al., 2019, Spain [23]Automatic recognition of different types of blastPeripheral blood images (local)LDASix groups of cell accuracy = 85% and for some class, accuracy was 97%Classification accuracy for the six groups of cell types was 85.8

Dasariraju et al., 2020, USA [27]Detection and classification of immature leukocytes for diagnosis of AMLSingle-cell morphological dataset of leukocytes from AML patients and nonmalignant (public)RFAccuracy of detection of immature = 92.99%
Accuracy for classification of immature leukocytes for types = 93.45%
Segmentation, feature extraction, detection and classification, and calculation modules were applied

Fathi et al., 2018, Egypt [16]Classification of ALL from normal casesBlood smear dataset (ALL-IDB)SVM with a Gaussian radial basis kernelAccuracy = 96.2%
Sensitivity = 97.3%
Specificity = 95.3%
Goal of this research was to design a framework for classification of cancer based on medical images

Fan et al., 2019, China [77]Localization and segmentationFour commonly used blood smear dataset (BCISC, LISC, and 2 other released datasets)DNNDataset 1: precision = 0.995%
Dataset 2: precision = 0.994%
Dataset 3: precision = 0.989%
Dataset 4: precision = 0.984%
Proposed Leukocyte Mask architecture to gain best precision result with all datasets

Khilji et al., 2020, Bangladesh [75]Detection of ALLALL dataset (C_NMC)CNN-based different models (encrypted)Accuracy = 77.934%Proposed model compared with other state-of-the-art model and gain better accuracy

Nagiub Abdelsalam et al., 2018, Egypt [26]Detection of all types of leukemiaLeukemia microscopicCNNAccuracy = 99.98%Different types of pretrained (CNN) models were applied and Inception-v3 model had the highest accuracy

Nagiub Abdelsalam et al., 2019, Egypt [25]AML detectionAML microscopic images (local)CNN (ResNet-101)Accuracy = 100%
Sensitivity = 100%
Even deep neural networks: AlexNet, GoogLeNet, VGG16, VGG19, Inception-v3, ResNet50, and ResNet10

Praveena and Singh, 2020, India [78]Segmentation and classification of ALLALL-IDB2Sparse-FCM and deep convolutional neural networkAccuracy = 93.5%
Sensitivity = 95.28%
Specificity = 93.89%
Grey Wolf-based Jaya optimization algorithm was applied for training CNN

Sharif et al., 2020, Pakistan and Qatar [76]Recognition of different types of leukocytesLISC, ALL-IDB1, and ALL-IDB2 malignant (public)Localization using YOLOv2. Classification using PSOAccuracy for ALL-IDB1 = 97.2%
Accuracy for ALL-IDB2 = 100%
Accuracy for LISC > 99%
Naïve Bayes and discriminant analysis and particle swarm optimization was used

Vogado et al., 2018, Brazil [22]Diagnosis of ALLALL-IDB1
ALL-IDB2
Leukocytes
CellaVision
CNN (AlexNet + CaffeNet + Vgg-f) and SVMAccuracy = 100%
Precision = 100%
Goal of this research was to design a framework for classification of cancer based on medical images (3 architectures were used in feature extraction, SVM for classification)

Shafique and Tehsin, 2020 Pakistan [79]Detection and classification of ALLALL-IDB1 and ALL-IDB2CNN (AlexNet)ALL detection accuracy = 99.50%, ALL subtype classification = 96.06%, dataset precision = 0.984%After detection, ALL subtype was classified based FAB classification system. Datasets

Hegde et al., 2018, India [18]Detection of nuclei and classification of WBCLeishmanSVMAccuracy of detection of lymphocyte = 100%After segmentation, the nucleus of WBC cells different kinds of them was classified

Jha and Dutta, 2019, India [21]Detection of ALLALL-IDB2Proposed hybrid segmentation + Chrono-SCA-ACNNAccuracy = 99%
Sensitivity = 100%
Nucleus and cytoplasm segmentation using Chrono-SCA-ACNN (chronological sine cosine algorithm-based actor-critic neural network)