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Anemia, characterized by a deficiency in red blood corpuscles or hemoglobin, poses a significant global health challenge, particularly affecting vulnerable populations. Traditional diagnostic methods often involve invasive procedures, posing challenges in resource-limited settings. This study aims to explore non-invasive anemia detection using fingernail images and convolutional neural networks (CNNs) as a promising alternative to conventional diagnostic approaches. The study utilizes a dataset of fingernail images collected from hospitals in Ghana, comprising both anemic and non-anemic cases. The dataset undergoes preprocessing, including selective enhancement of red components, conversion to the CIELAB color space, and feature extraction. A multi-input Deep Neural Network (DNN) framework employing pre-trained CNNs is proposed for anemia classification. The pre-trained CNN architectures include EfficientNet B1, EfficientNet B4, and MobileNet V3. The framework’s performance was assessed using two methodologies: The first involved random shuffling of the dataset, followed by division into training, testing, and validation sets, with evaluation metrics including Accuracy, Precision, F1 scores, and a Confusion Matrix. The second employed five-fold cross-validation, measured using accuracy. The evaluation of the proposed DNN framework using both of the methodologies indicates that EfficientNet B4 achieved the highest testing accuracy (97.87%), precision (97.88%), recall (97.87%), and F1 score (97.88%) and a cross-validation accuracy of 97.37% for the first and second methodologies respectively making it best fit for the proposed DNN framework. The findings demonstrate that the proposed framework yields promising results, especially under the second approach, and opens avenues for further exploration in transfer learning, fine-tuning of deep neural networks for multi-input feature integration, and cross-validation.