The journal retracts the 03 January 2022 article cited above.
Following publication, the publisher uncovered evidence that false identities were used in the peer-review process. The assignment of fake reviewers was confirmed by an investigation, conducted in accordance with Frontiers’ policies and the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines. Given the concerns, the editors no longer have confidence in the findings presented in the article. UPDATE (26 July 2024): This notice is to alert readers of this matter, it does not imply involvement of the co-authors.
This retraction was approved by the Chief Editors of Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology and the Chief Executive Editor of Frontiers. The authors do not agree to this retraction.
Summary
Keywords
Blood Cells, Convolutional Neural Network, Randomized neural network, ResNet-18, Transfer Learning
Citation
Frontiers Editorial Office (2024) Retraction: BCNet: a novel network for blood cell classification. Front. Cell Dev. Biol. 11:1358376. doi: 10.3389/fcell.2023.1358376
Received
19 December 2023
Accepted
21 December 2023
Published
05 January 2024
Approved by
Ramani Ramchandran, Medical College of Wisconsin, United States
Volume
11 - 2023
Updates
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