Comprehensive Benchmarking of YOLOv11 Architectures for Scalable and Granular Peripheral Blood Cell Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24595v1
• Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2025 11:00:19 GMT
• Title: Comprehensive Benchmarking of YOLOv11 Architectures for Scalable and Granular Peripheral Blood Cell Detection
• Authors: Mohamad Abou Ali, Mariam Abdulfattah, Baraah Al Hussein, Fadi Dornaika, Ali Cherry, Mohamad Hajj-Hassan, Lara Hamawy,
• Abstract summary: Manual peripheral blood smear (PBS) analysis is labor intensive and subjective.<n>While deep learning offers a promising alternative, a systematic evaluation of state of the art models such as YOLOv11 for fine grained PBS detection is still lacking.<n>We curate a large scale annotated dataset for blood cell detection and classification, comprising 16,891 images across 12 peripheral blood cell classes, along with the red blood cell class, all carefully re annotated for object detection tasks.<n>In total, the dataset contains 298,850 annotated cells.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Manual peripheral blood smear (PBS) analysis is labor intensive and subjective. While deep learning offers a promising alternative, a systematic evaluation of state of the art models such as YOLOv11 for fine grained PBS detection is still lacking. In this work, we make two key contributions. First, we curate a large scale annotated dataset for blood cell detection and classification, comprising 16,891 images across 12 peripheral blood cell (PBC) classes, along with the red blood cell class, all carefully re annotated for object detection tasks. In total, the dataset contains 298,850 annotated cells. Second, we leverage this dataset to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of five YOLOv11 variants (ranging from Nano to XLarge). These models are rigorously benchmarked under two data splitting strategies (70:20:10 and 80:10:10) and systematically assessed using multiple performance criteria, including mean Average Precision (mAP), precision, recall, F1 score, and computational efficiency. Our experiments show that the YOLOv11 Medium variant achieves the best trade off, reaching a mAP@0.5 of 0.934 under the 8:1:1 split. Larger models (Large and XLarge) provide only marginal accuracy gains at substantially higher computational cost. Moreover, the 8:1:1 split consistently outperforms the 7:2:1 split across all models. These findings highlight YOLOv11, particularly the Medium variant, as a highly effective framework for automated, fine grained PBS detection. Beyond benchmarking, our publicly released dataset (github.com/Mohamad-AbouAli/OI-PBC-Dataset) offers a valuable resource to advance research on blood cell detection and classification in hematology.

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