Enhanced Leukemic Cell Classification Using Attention-Based CNN and Data Augmentation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.01026v1
• Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2026 01:24:11 GMT
• Title: Enhanced Leukemic Cell Classification Using Attention-Based CNN and Data Augmentation
• Authors: Douglas Costa Braga, Daniel Oliveira Dantas,
• Abstract summary: Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the most common childhood cancer, requiring expert microscopic diagnosis.<n>The proposed system integrates an attention-based convolutional neural network combining EfficientNetV2-B3 with Squeeze-and-Excitation mechanisms for automated ALL cell classification.<n>Our approach employs comprehensive data augmentation, focal loss for class imbalance, and patient-wise data splitting to ensure robust and reproducible evaluation.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: We present a reproducible deep learning pipeline for leukemic cell classification, focusing on system architecture, experimental robustness, and software design choices for medical image analysis. Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the most common childhood cancer, requiring expert microscopic diagnosis that suffers from inter-observer variability and time constraints. The proposed system integrates an attention-based convolutional neural network combining EfficientNetV2-B3 with Squeeze-and-Excitation mechanisms for automated ALL cell classification. Our approach employs comprehensive data augmentation, focal loss for class imbalance, and patient-wise data splitting to ensure robust and reproducible evaluation. On the C-NMC 2019 dataset (12,528 original images from 62 patients), the system achieves a 97.89% F1-score and 97.89% accuracy on the test set, with statistical validation through 100-iteration Monte Carlo experiments confirming significant improvements (p < 0.001) over baseline methods. The proposed pipeline outperforms existing approaches by up to 4.67% while using 89% fewer parameters than VGG16 (15.2M vs. 138M). The attention mechanism provides interpretable visualizations of diagnostically relevant cellular features, demonstrating that modern attention-based architectures can improve leukemic cell classification while maintaining computational efficiency suitable for clinical deployment.

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