Iron Deficiency Anaemia (IDA) is the most common blood disorder. According to WHO, 30% of women aged 15-49 years, 37% of pregnant women, as well as 40% of children aged 6-59 months are anaemic globally. Anaemia can cause premature birth and affect mental, physical, and cognitive development, which in turn will lead to birth weight problems and stunted birth. The process of detecting IDA is usually captured based on a thin blood smear utilizing microscopic observation. Nevertheless, this process can be time-consuming. Moreover, it is challenging to identify the difference between IDA and normal red blood cells (RBCs) because the size is similar based on the observation of the human eye. It will cause difficulty in giving drug treatment to patients. A computeraided diagnosis (CAD) method was created to automatically distinguish between IDA and normal RBCs. The processes started with image acquisition, image processing, and recognition. Additionally, a Graphical User Interface (GUI) is also used to display images. In conclusion, recognition was done using the Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) method. The findings indicate that the proposed automated system is effective at distinguishing between IDA as well as normal RBCs, having an accuracy of 97.58% with regard to training and 98% regarding validation utilizing Levenberg-Marquardt (LM) trained MLP.
