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The quantization algorithm allows the convolutional neural network (CNN) inference to be carried out using integer arithmetic and facilitates hardware implementation with area and power savings. A dual configuration register group structure is also proposed to reduce the interval idle time between every neural network layer in order to improve the CNN processing efficiency. We designed a CNN accelerator architecture for the integer-only quantization algorithm and the dual configuration register group and implemented them in field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA). A microfluidic chip and mobile lensless sensing cell image acquisition device were also developed, then combined with the CNN accelerator to build the mobile lensless microfluidic blood image-acquisition and analysis prototype system. We applied the cell segmentation and cell classification CNN in the system and the classification accuracy reached 98.44%. Compared with the floating-point method, the accuracy dropped by only 0.56%, but the area decreased by 45%. When the system is implemented with the maximum frequency of 100 MHz in the FPGA, a classification speed of 17.9 frames per second (fps) can be obtained. The results show that the quantized CNN microfluidic lensless-sensing blood-acquisition and analysis system fully meets the needs of current portable medical devices, and is conducive to promoting the transformation of artificial intelligence (AI)-based blood cell acquisition and analysis work from large servers to portable cell analysis devices, facilitating rapid early analysis of diseases.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s19235103","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,11,22]],"date-time":"2019-11-22T02:49:27Z","timestamp":1574390967000},"page":"5103","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":12,"title":["A Quantized CNN-Based Microfluidic Lensless-Sensing Mobile Blood-Acquisition and Analysis System"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"19","author":[{"given":"Yumin","family":"Liao","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Automation and Information Engineering, Xi\u2019an University of Technology, Xi\u2019an 710000, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ningmei","family":"Yu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Automation and Information Engineering, Xi\u2019an University of Technology, Xi\u2019an 710000, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Dian","family":"Tian","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Automation and Information Engineering, Xi\u2019an University of Technology, Xi\u2019an 710000, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Shuaijun","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Automation and Information Engineering, Xi\u2019an University of Technology, Xi\u2019an 710000, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Zhengpeng","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Automation and Information Engineering, Xi\u2019an University of Technology, Xi\u2019an 710000, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,11,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"467","article-title":"New approaches to single-cell analysis by capillary electrophoresis","volume":"20","author":"Zabzdyre","year":"2001","journal-title":"Phys. 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