ABSTRACT The assessment of the state of health (SOH) in lithium-ion batteries is essential for ensuring safe operation and implementing scientific management practices. This paper proposes a novel hybrid data-driven approach for accurately estimating the SOH of lithium-ion cells. Initially, the sparrow search algorithm (SSA) was implemented to optimize the structural configuration of a hybrid long-short-term memory neural network and convolutional neural network model. Second, four health indicators, namely, constant current charging time (CCCT), constant current charging capacity (CCCC), discharging time (DT), and discharging capacity (DC), were identified as inputs to the estimation model by Pearson correlation analysis. The CALCE battery dataset is utilized for conducting experiments, yielding remarkably low average values of root mean square error (RMSE) and mean absolute error (MAE), standing at merely 0.6737% and 0.5286%, respectively. And comparing with GRU, TCN, CNN, LSTM, and PSO optimization models, the proposed method has higher SOH estimation accuracy, which is more than 11% better than that. The robustness of three additional kinds of batteries is tested to validate their performance under varying current rates and temperatures. The results demonstrate that the accurate estimation of SOH, and the estimated values’ relative errors for each cycle of the three different types of batteries are all basically within 1%, with their maximum average RMSE are only 0.4840%, 0.3609%, and 0.5681%, respectively, and their maximum average MAE are only 0.3900%, 0.2828%, and 0.4149%, respectively.