A deep convolutional neural network for classification of red blood cells in sickle cell anemia.

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a hematological disorder leading to blood vessel occlusion accompanied by painful episodes and even death. Red blood cells (RBCs) of SCD patients have diverse shapes that reveal important biomechanical and bio-rheological characteristics, e.g. their density, fragility, a...

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Main Authors: Mengjia Xu, Dimitrios P Papageorgiou, Sabia Z Abidi, Ming Dao, Hong Zhao, George Em Karniadakis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-10-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005746