Enhancing acute leukemia classification through hybrid fuzzy C means and random forest methods

Leukemia is a category of cancer that is normally found in blood and bone marrow, and which causes rapid abnormal development in the making of white blood cells than the required amount. The produced white blood cells could be ineffective to fight against harmful infections and can even prejudice or...

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Main Authors: K. Lakshmi Narayanan, R. Santhana Krishnan, Y. Harold Robinson, S. Vimal, Tarik A. Rashid, Chetna Kausha, Md. Mehedi Hassan
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Published: Elsevier 2025-06-01
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R. Santhana Krishnan
Y. Harold Robinson
S. Vimal
Tarik A. Rashid
Chetna Kausha
Md. Mehedi Hassan
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description Leukemia is a category of cancer that is normally found in blood and bone marrow, and which causes rapid abnormal development in the making of white blood cells than the required amount. The produced white blood cells could be ineffective to fight against harmful infections and can even prejudice or restrict the capability of the bone marrow to generate red blood cells and blood platelets. If this is not diagnosed in the earlier stage, it may start to affect the function of the internal organs and cause death. Normally, entire blood counts image analysis and diagnosis are done manually which is an inaccurate and time-intensive process. In this proposed method the classification is tested with two Machine Learning algorithms which are Hybrid Fuzzy C Means (FCM) and Random Forest algorithm (RF) and Support Vector Machine for the detection and classification of Acute Leukemia disease and their performance was evaluated. The dataset comprised of 8637 images which included infected images, normal images and augmented images from different dataset providers and RGB to CMYK conversion with histogram equalization is applied for pre-processing, K means for Image Segmentation. Experimental results convey that Hybrid FCM and RF Algorithm attained an accuracy of 99.06 %, a sensitivity of 99.4 %, and a specificity of 97.8 % respectively, and the ROC (Receiver Operating Characteristic) curve shows that the result produced by the Hybrid FCM & RF based Classifier is best suitable in diagnosing the classification of the Acute Leukemia disease. The tool used for developing the proposed method was Matlab R2018 software.
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spelling doaj-art-57af72399bc049b0a44749f76c2af0982025-08-20T03:05:24ZengElsevierMeasurement: Sensors2665-91742025-06-013910187610.1016/j.measen.2025.101876Enhancing acute leukemia classification through hybrid fuzzy C means and random forest methodsK. Lakshmi Narayanan0R. Santhana Krishnan1Y. Harold Robinson2S. Vimal3Tarik A. Rashid4Chetna Kausha5Md. Mehedi Hassan6Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Francis Xavier Engineering College, Tirunelveli, IndiaDepartment of Electronics and Communication Engineering, SCAD College of Engineering and Technology, IndiaDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, Francis Xavier Engineering College, Tirunelveli, IndiaDepartment of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, Sri Eshwar College of Engineering, Coimbatore, India; Corresponding author.Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Kurdistan Hewler, Erbil, IraqChitkara University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Chitkara University, Punjab, IndiaComputer Science and Engineering Discipline, Khulna University, Khulna, 9208, Bangladesh; Corresponding author.Leukemia is a category of cancer that is normally found in blood and bone marrow, and which causes rapid abnormal development in the making of white blood cells than the required amount. The produced white blood cells could be ineffective to fight against harmful infections and can even prejudice or restrict the capability of the bone marrow to generate red blood cells and blood platelets. If this is not diagnosed in the earlier stage, it may start to affect the function of the internal organs and cause death. Normally, entire blood counts image analysis and diagnosis are done manually which is an inaccurate and time-intensive process. In this proposed method the classification is tested with two Machine Learning algorithms which are Hybrid Fuzzy C Means (FCM) and Random Forest algorithm (RF) and Support Vector Machine for the detection and classification of Acute Leukemia disease and their performance was evaluated. The dataset comprised of 8637 images which included infected images, normal images and augmented images from different dataset providers and RGB to CMYK conversion with histogram equalization is applied for pre-processing, K means for Image Segmentation. Experimental results convey that Hybrid FCM and RF Algorithm attained an accuracy of 99.06 %, a sensitivity of 99.4 %, and a specificity of 97.8 % respectively, and the ROC (Receiver Operating Characteristic) curve shows that the result produced by the Hybrid FCM & RF based Classifier is best suitable in diagnosing the classification of the Acute Leukemia disease. The tool used for developing the proposed method was Matlab R2018 software.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2665917425000704Acute lymphoblastic leukemiaLymphocytesMachine learningImage analysisRandom forest classifier
spellingShingle K. Lakshmi Narayanan
R. Santhana Krishnan
Y. Harold Robinson
S. Vimal
Tarik A. Rashid
Chetna Kausha
Md. Mehedi Hassan
Enhancing acute leukemia classification through hybrid fuzzy C means and random forest methods
Measurement: Sensors
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia
Lymphocytes
Machine learning
Image analysis
Random forest classifier
title Enhancing acute leukemia classification through hybrid fuzzy C means and random forest methods
title_full Enhancing acute leukemia classification through hybrid fuzzy C means and random forest methods
title_fullStr Enhancing acute leukemia classification through hybrid fuzzy C means and random forest methods
title_full_unstemmed Enhancing acute leukemia classification through hybrid fuzzy C means and random forest methods
title_short Enhancing acute leukemia classification through hybrid fuzzy C means and random forest methods
title_sort enhancing acute leukemia classification through hybrid fuzzy c means and random forest methods
topic Acute lymphoblastic leukemia
Lymphocytes
Machine learning
Image analysis
Random forest classifier
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2665917425000704
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