AI-Driven Automated Blood Cell Anomaly Detection: Enhancing Diagnostics and Telehealth in Hematology

Hematology plays a critical role in diagnosing and managing a wide range of blood-related disorders. The manual interpretation of blood smear images, however, is time-consuming and highly dependent on expert availability. Moreover, it is particularly challenging in remote and resource-limited settin...

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Main Authors: Sami Naouali, Oussama El Othmani
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Published: MDPI AG 2025-05-01
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description Hematology plays a critical role in diagnosing and managing a wide range of blood-related disorders. The manual interpretation of blood smear images, however, is time-consuming and highly dependent on expert availability. Moreover, it is particularly challenging in remote and resource-limited settings. In this study, we present an AI-driven system for automated blood cell anomaly detection, combining computer vision and machine learning models to support efficient diagnostics in hematology and telehealth contexts. Our architecture integrates segmentation (YOLOv11), classification (ResNet50), transfer learning, and zero-shot learning to identify and categorize cell types and abnormalities from blood smear images. Evaluated on real annotated samples, the system achieved high performance, with a precision of 0.98, recall of 0.99, and F1 score of 0.98. These results highlight the potential of the proposed system to enhance remote diagnostic capabilities and support clinical decision making in underserved regions.
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spelling doaj-art-959f624deeee4f16b4cdb94205f3476c2025-08-20T03:47:54ZengMDPI AGJournal of Imaging2313-433X2025-05-0111515710.3390/jimaging11050157AI-Driven Automated Blood Cell Anomaly Detection: Enhancing Diagnostics and Telehealth in HematologySami Naouali0Oussama El Othmani1Information Systems Department, College of Computer Science and Information Technology, King Faisal University, Al Ahsa 31982, Saudi ArabiaInformation Systems Department, Military Academy of Fondouk Jedid, Nabeul 8012, TunisiaHematology plays a critical role in diagnosing and managing a wide range of blood-related disorders. The manual interpretation of blood smear images, however, is time-consuming and highly dependent on expert availability. Moreover, it is particularly challenging in remote and resource-limited settings. In this study, we present an AI-driven system for automated blood cell anomaly detection, combining computer vision and machine learning models to support efficient diagnostics in hematology and telehealth contexts. Our architecture integrates segmentation (YOLOv11), classification (ResNet50), transfer learning, and zero-shot learning to identify and categorize cell types and abnormalities from blood smear images. Evaluated on real annotated samples, the system achieved high performance, with a precision of 0.98, recall of 0.99, and F1 score of 0.98. These results highlight the potential of the proposed system to enhance remote diagnostic capabilities and support clinical decision making in underserved regions.https://www.mdpi.com/2313-433X/11/5/157artificial intelligenceblood cell analysismachine learninghematologymedical imagingtelehealth
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AI-Driven Automated Blood Cell Anomaly Detection: Enhancing Diagnostics and Telehealth in Hematology
Journal of Imaging
artificial intelligence
blood cell analysis
machine learning
hematology
medical imaging
telehealth
title AI-Driven Automated Blood Cell Anomaly Detection: Enhancing Diagnostics and Telehealth in Hematology
title_full AI-Driven Automated Blood Cell Anomaly Detection: Enhancing Diagnostics and Telehealth in Hematology
title_fullStr AI-Driven Automated Blood Cell Anomaly Detection: Enhancing Diagnostics and Telehealth in Hematology
title_full_unstemmed AI-Driven Automated Blood Cell Anomaly Detection: Enhancing Diagnostics and Telehealth in Hematology
title_short AI-Driven Automated Blood Cell Anomaly Detection: Enhancing Diagnostics and Telehealth in Hematology
title_sort ai driven automated blood cell anomaly detection enhancing diagnostics and telehealth in hematology
topic artificial intelligence
blood cell analysis
machine learning
hematology
medical imaging
telehealth
url https://www.mdpi.com/2313-433X/11/5/157
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