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Item Open Access An algorithm to Detect Overlapping Red Blood Cells for Sickle Cell Disease Diagnosis.(Kabale University, 2024) Mabirizi, Vicent; Kawuma, Simon; Safari, YonasiIn Africa, Uganda is among the countries with a high number of babies (20,000 babies)born with sickle cell, contributing between 6.8% of the children born with sickle cell every year worldwide and approximately 4.5% of the children born with hemoglobinopathies worldwide. It is estimated that by 2050, sickle cell cases will increase by 30% if no intervention is put in place. To facilitate early detection of sickle cell anemia, medical experts employ machine learning algorithms to detect sickle cell abnormality. Previous research revealed that algorithms for recognizing the shape of a sickle cell from blood smear by fractional dimension, cannot detect sickle cells if applied to blood samples containing overlapping red blood cells. In this research, the authors developed an algorithm to detect overlapping red blood cells for sickle cell disease diagnosis. The algorithm uses canny edge and double threshold machine learning techniques and takes overlapping red blood cell images as inputs to detect if these cells are sickle cell anemic. These images have a scale magnification of (200×, 400×, 650×) pixel taken using a microscope. The algorithm was tested on a total of 1000 digital images and the overall accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity were 98.18%, 98.29%, and 97.98% respectively.Item Open Access Comparison of Deep Learning Techniques in Detection of Sickle Cell Disease.(Kabale University, 2023) Mabirizi, Vicent; Kawuma, Simon; Kyarisiima, Addah; Bamutura, David; Atwiine, Barnabas; Nanjebe, Deborah; Oyesigye, Adolf MukamaRecently, the transfer learning technique has proved to be powerful in enhancing the development of deep learning methods for sickle cell disease (SCD) detection as a complement to the clinical method where a hemoglobin electrophoresis machine is used. This is evidenced by some models and algorithms with ≥90% prediction accuracy. From the literature, most of the proposed methods are trained and tested on pre-trained deep learning models like VGG16, VGG19, ResNet, Inception_V3, and ReNet. However, training and testing of these methods are limited to one model and separate datasets which may lead to biased results due to implementation in a variation of these models which affects the results produced. To this end, there exists a need to evaluate the SCD models using the same dataset. Thus, in this research study, we carried out a comparative investigation and evaluated predominate pre-trained models used to detect SCD using the same dataset to ascertain which one has the best accuracy. We used a secondary dataset obtained from an online dataset. In our study, we have discovered that Inception V3 yielded the highest accuracy of 97.3% followed by VGG19 at 97.0%, VGG16 at 91%, ResNet50 at 82% and ReNet at 67%, and the CNN-scratch model achieved 81% accuracy. Results from our study will aid researchers and industry practitioners in making decisions on the best deep-learning model to use while detecting SCD.