Design and development of a convolutional neural network based on human cognitive attention mechanism for automatic classification of leukemia

Mohammad Zolfaghari; Mohammad Saniee Abadeh; Hedieh Sajedi

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0336770

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Design and development of a convolutional neural network based on human cognitive attention mechanism for automatic classification of leukemia

Mohammad Zolfaghari,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
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Mohammad Saniee Abadeh ,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: saniee@modares.ac.ir

Affiliation Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3429-8920

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Hedieh Sajedi

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, College of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4782-9222

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Design and development of a convolutional neural network based on human cognitive attention mechanism for automatic classification of leukemia

Mohammad Zolfaghari,
Mohammad Saniee Abadeh,
Hedieh Sajedi

Published: February 19, 2026
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0336770

About the Authors

Mohammad Zolfaghari

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

Mohammad Saniee Abadeh

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: saniee@modares.ac.ir

Affiliation Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3429-8920

Hedieh Sajedi

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, College of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4782-9222

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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