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These systems serve as valuable support and secondary opinion resources for laboratory technicians and hematologists when diagnosing leukemia through microscopic examination. In this study, we deployed a pre-trained CNN model (MobileNet) that has a small size and low complexity, making it suitable for mobile applications and embedded systems. We used the L1 regularization method and a novel dataset balancing approach, which incorporates HSV color transformation, saturation elimination, Gaussian noise addition, and several established augmentation techniques, to prevent model overfitting. The proposed model attained an accuracy of 95.33% and an F1 score of 0.95 when evaluated on the held-out test set extracted from the C_NMC_2019 public dataset. We also evaluated the proposed model by adding zero-mean Gaussian noise to the test images. The experimental results indicate that the proposed model is both efficient and robust, even when subjected to additional Gaussian noise. The comparison of the proposed MobileNet_M model\u2019s results with those of ALNet and various other existing models on the same dataset underscores its superior efficacy. The code is available for reproducing the experimental results at\n                    <jats:uri>https:\/\/tamaslevente.github.io\/ALLM\/<\/jats:uri>\n                    .\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3389\/frai.2025.1620252","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,7,17]],"date-time":"2025-07-17T05:25:04Z","timestamp":1752729904000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":13,"title":["A reliable approach for identifying acute lymphoblastic leukemia in microscopic imaging"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"8","author":[{"given":"Mimosette","family":"Makem","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Levente","family":"Tamas","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Lucian","family":"Bu\u0219oniu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,7,17]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"4435","DOI":"10.1049\/iet-ipr.2020.0978","article-title":"Efficient computer-aided diagnosis technique for leukaemia cancer detection","volume":"14","author":"Abdulla","year":"2020","journal-title":"IET Image Process."},{"key":"ref2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"106925","DOI":"10.1016\/j.bspc.2024.106925","article-title":"Ensemble learning using Gompertz function for leukemia classification","volume":"100","author":"Abhishek","year":"2025","journal-title":"Biomed. 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