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+# CNN-ALL
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+Matlab source code for the paper:
+
+	A. Genovese, M. S. Hosseini, V. Piuri, K. N. Plataniotis, and F. Scotti, 
+	"Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia detection based on adaptive unsharpening and Deep Learning", 
+	in Proc. of the 2021 IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2021), 
+	Toronto, ON, Canada, June 6-11, 2021, pp. 1205-1209. 
+	ISBN: 978-1-7281-7605-5. [DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP39728.2021.9414362]
+	
+Paper:
+
+https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9414362
+	
+Project page:
+
+https://iebil.di.unimi.it/cnnALL/index.htm
+    
+Outline:
+![Outline](https://iebil.di.unimi.it/cnnALL/imgs/outline_icassp21.jpg "Outline")
+
+Citation:
+
+	@InProceedings {icassp21,
+    author = {A. Genovese and M. S. Hosseini and V. Piuri and K. N. Plataniotis and F. Scotti},
+    booktitle = {Proc. of the 2021 IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2021)},
+    title = {Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia detection based on adaptive unsharpening and Deep Learning},
+    address = {Toronto, ON, Canada},
+    pages = {1205-1209},
+    month = {June},
+    day = {6-11},
+    year = {2021},
+    note = {978-1-7281-7605-5}
+    }
+
+Main files:
+
+	- launch_VARPCANet: main file
+
+Required files:
+
+	- ./imgs/orig/ALL-IDB/ALL_IDB2/img: Database of images, with filenames in the format "Im001_1.tif", 
+    the images can be downloaded at: https://homes.di.unimi.it/scotti/all/
+
+Part of the code uses the Matlab source code of the paper:
+
+	T. Chan, K. Jia, S. Gao, J. Lu, Z. Zeng and Y. Ma, 
+	"PCANet: A Simple Deep Learning Baseline for Image Classification?," 
+	in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 24, no. 12, pp. 5017-5032, Dec. 2015.
+	DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2015.2475625
+	http://mx.nthu.edu.tw/~tsunghan/Source%20codes.html
+
+The 1Shot-MaxPol library:
+
+	Mahdi S. Hosseini and Konstantinos N. Plataniotis 
+	"Convolutional Deblurring for Natural Imaging," 
+	IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2019.
+	https://github.com/mahdihosseini/1Shot-MaxPol
+	
+The FQPath library:
+
+	Hosseini, Mahdi S., Jasper AZ Brawley-Hayes, Yueyang Zhang, Lyndon Chan, Konstantinos N. Plataniotis, and Savvas Damaskinos
+	"Focus Quality Assessment of High-Throughput Whole Slide Imaging in Digital Pathology." 
+	IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (2019)
+	https://github.com/mahdihosseini/FQPath
+	
+The Fast N-D Grayscale Image Segmentation library:
+
+	Fast N-D Grayscale Image Segmenation With c- or Fuzzy c-Means
+	https://github.com/AntonSemechko/Fast-Fuzzy-C-Means-Segmentation
+	
+The Stain Deconvolution library:
+
+	SCD_FastICA
+	https://github.com/lisatostrams/SCD_FastICA
+	
+and the Colour Image Normalization library:
+
+	Finlayson, G., Schiele, B., & Crowley, J. (1998). 
+	Comprehensive Colour Image Normalization. 
+	Computer Vision—ECCV’98, 1406, 475–490. 
+	https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0055655
+	https://it.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/60360-comprehensive-colour-normalization
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