Automated Detection of Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia in Blood Films and Bone Marrow Aspirates with Annotation-free Deep Learning

no code implementations • 20 Mar 2022 • Petru Manescu, Priya Narayanan, Christopher Bendkowski, Muna Elmi, Remy Claveau, Vijay Pawar, Biobele J. Brown, Mike Shaw, Anupama Rao, Delmiro Fernandez-Reyes

While optical microscopy inspection of blood films and bone marrow aspirates by a hematologist is a crucial step in establishing diagnosis of acute leukemia, especially in low-resource settings where other diagnostic modalities might not be available, the task remains time-consuming and prone to human inconsistencies.

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