Classification of Malaria Cell Image using Inception-V3 Architecture

Malaria is a severe global public health problem caused by the bite of infected mosquitoes. It can be cured, but only with early detection and effective, quick treatment. It can cause severe conditions if not properly diagnosed and treated at an early stage. In the worst scenario, it can cause death. This study aims at focusing on classifying malaria cell images. Malaria is classified as a dangerous disease caused by the bite of the female Anophles mosquito. As such, it leads to mortality when immediate action and treatment fails to be administered. In particular, this study aims to classify malaria cell images by utilizing the Inception-V3 architecture. In this study, training was conducted on 27,558 malaria cell image data through Inception-V3 architecture by proposing 3 scenarios. The proposed scenario 1 model applies the SGD optimizer to generate a loss value of 0.13 and an accuracy value of 0.95; scenario 2 model applies the Adam optimizer to generate a loss value of 0.09 and an accuracy value of 0.96; and lastly scenario 3 implements the RMSprop optimizer to generate a loss value of 0.08 and an accuracy value of 0.97. Applying the three scenarios, the results of the study apparently indicate that the Inception-V3 model using the RMSprop optimizer is capable of providing the best accuracy results with an accuracy of 97% with the lowest loss value, compared to scenario 1 and scenario 2. Further, the test results confirms that the proposed model in this study is capable of classifying malaria cells effectively.