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This study used the Resnet50 network as a backbone network of the single shot detector (SSD) for automatically identifying and counting different blood cells and, meanwhile, proposed a systematic method to find a better combination of algorithm hyperparameters of the Resnet50 network for promoting accuracy for identifying and counting blood cells. The Resnet50 backbone network of the SSD with its optimized algorithm hyperparameters, which is called the Resnet50-SSD model, was developed to enhance the feature extraction ability for identifying and counting blood cells. Furthermore, the algorithm hyperparameters of Resnet50 backbone networks of the SSD were optimized by the Taguchi experimental method for promoting detection accuracy of the Resnet50-SSD model. The experimental result shows that the detection accuracy of the Resnet50-SSD model with 512\u2009\u00d7\u2009512\u2009\u00d7\u20093 input images was better than that of the Resnet50-SSD model with 300\u2009\u00d7\u2009300\u2009\u00d7\u20093 input images on the test set of blood cells images. Additionally, the detection accuracy of the Resnet50-SSD model using the combination of algorithm hyperparameters got by the Taguchi method was better than that of the Resnet50-SSD model using the combination of algorithm hyperparameters given by the Matlab example.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>In blood cell images acquired from the BCCD dataset, the proposed Resnet50-SSD model had higher accuracy in identifying and counting blood cells, especially white blood cells and red blood cells.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/s12859-022-05074-2","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,9]],"date-time":"2022-12-09T00:03:42Z","timestamp":1670544222000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":16,"title":["Automatic identifying and counting blood cells in smear images by using single shot detector and Taguchi method"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"22","author":[{"given":"Yao-Mei","family":"Chen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1531-5027","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jinn-Tsong","family":"Tsai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Wen-Hsien","family":"Ho","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,8]]},"reference":[{"key":"5074_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"96","DOI":"10.1053\/jpan.2003.50013","volume":"18","author":"B George-Gay","year":"2003","unstructured":"George-Gay B, Parker K. 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