Understanding the learned behavior of customized convolutional neural networks toward malaria parasite detection in thin blood smear images

• Main Authors: Sivaramakrishnan Rajaraman, Kamolrat Silamut, Md A. Hossain, I. Ersoy, Richard J. Maude, Stefan Jaeger, George R. Thoma, Sameer K. Antani
• Other Authors: Mahidol University
• Format: Article
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Medicine
• Online Access: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/46570

© 2018 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have become the architecture of choice for visual recognition tasks. However, these models are perceived as black boxes since there is a lack of understanding of the learned behavior from the under...