Volume 39, Issue 4 e12906
ORIGINAL ARTICLE

An ensemble artificial intelligence-enabled MIoT for automated diagnosis of malaria parasite

Soumya Ranjan Nayak

Soumya Ranjan Nayak

Amity School of Engineering and Technology, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida, India

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Janmenjoy Nayak

Corresponding Author

Janmenjoy Nayak

Aditya Institute of Technology and Management, Kotturu, Andhra Pradesh, India

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Janmenjoy Nayak, Aditya Institute of Technology and Management, Tekkali, K Kotturu, Andhra Pradesh, India.

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S. Vimal

S. Vimal

Department of AI & DS, Ramco Institute of Technology, North Venganallur Villege, Rajapalayam, Tamilnadu, India

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Vaibhav Arora

Vaibhav Arora

Amity School of Engineering and Technology, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida, India

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Utkarsh Sinha

Utkarsh Sinha

Amity School of Engineering and Technology, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida, India

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First published: 09 December 2021
Citations: 1

Abstract

Rapid advancements in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and artificial intelligence (AI) applications permeating to all spheres of life, including medical prognosis, have led modern clinical systems to tread the path of advanced Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) by infusing advanced learning technologies, particularly deep learning. Automated diagnosis of malarial infection using AI-enabled IoMT holds the promise of sustainable prognosis by reducing diagnosis error significantly with improved recognition accuracy. Existing automated diagnostic systems usually employ classical deep learning models wherein setting parameter values such as automatic learning rate selection, weight management etc. are a major concern. To address these issues, this paper proposes a collaborative ensemble AI-enabled IoMT automated diagnosis model to classify malaria parasitized from microscopic images. The proposed model consists of two main stages. In the first stage, a Snapshot ensemble learning model is conjured upon by a combination of three distinct layers of Convolutional, Batch Normalization, and Relu networks; that alters the learning rate aggressively during training phase thus providing different network weights that gives multiple models by training a single model. In the second stage, an ensemble of three transfer learning models is constructed, and finally the average ensemble result is obtained. The learning rates at both these stages are empirically selected through Cosine Annealing. Experiment on the malaria parasite image dataset demonstrates the superiority of the proposed model with respect to a baseline algorithm.

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The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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