Deep learning neural network based on the PSO for leukemia cell disease diagnosis from microscope images

Leukemia is a cancer of blood tissues, including the bone marrow and the lymphatic system. White blood cells (WBCs) are affected by leukemia, causing the bone marrow to produce an excessive amount of abnormal, and immature WBCs, which do not function properly and circulate through the body. Leukemia is one of the most difficult diagnoses to make that uses image features extracted from a microscope. In this thesis, deep learning neural networks based on optimization methods have used for leukemia cell disease diagnosis from microscope images. First, two powerful Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) architectures with pre-trained on ImageNet have used to extract features from leukemia images, which are: Deep Residual Networks (ResNet-50) and GoogLeNet. Then, Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) have used to select the effective features to achieve the most accurate and fastest prediction that will be obtained by using different of machine learning algorithms which are: Support Vector Machine (SVM), K-Nearest Neighbor (K-NN), and Decision Tree (DT). The obtained results were as follows: 100%, 100%, and 89.7% for SVM, K-NN, and DT, respectively.