Validation of artificial intelligence-based digital microscopy for automated detection of Schistosoma haematobium eggs in urine in Gabon

• Brice Meulah ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: b.meulah_tcheubousou@lumc.nl

  Affiliations Leiden University Center for Infectious Diseases (LUCID), Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, Centre de Recherches Médicales des Lambaréné, CERMEL, Lambaréné, Gabon

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2068-1563

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• Prosper Oyibo,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Mechanical, Maritime and Material Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

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• Pytsje T. Hoekstra,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Leiden University Center for Infectious Diseases (LUCID), Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

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• Paul Alvyn Nguema Moure,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliations Centre de Recherches Médicales des Lambaréné, CERMEL, Lambaréné, Gabon, Ecole doctorale régionale d’Afrique centrale en infectiologie tropicale de Franceville, Gabon

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• Moustapha Nzamba Maloum,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre de Recherches Médicales des Lambaréné, CERMEL, Lambaréné, Gabon

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• Romeo Aime Laclong-Lontchi,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Centre de Recherches Médicales des Lambaréné, CERMEL, Lambaréné, Gabon

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• Yabo Josiane Honkpehedji,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Leiden University Center for Infectious Diseases (LUCID), Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, Centre de Recherches Médicales des Lambaréné, CERMEL, Lambaréné, Gabon, Fondation pour la Recherche Scientifique, Cotonou, Benin

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• Michel Bengtson,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Leiden University Center for Infectious Diseases (LUCID), Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

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• Cornelis Hokke,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Leiden University Center for Infectious Diseases (LUCID), Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

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• Paul L. A. M. Corstjens,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cell and Chemical Biology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

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• Temitope Agbana,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Mechanical, Maritime and Material Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

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• Jan Carel Diehl,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

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• Ayola Akim Adegnika,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Leiden University Center for Infectious Diseases (LUCID), Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, Centre de Recherches Médicales des Lambaréné, CERMEL, Lambaréné, Gabon, Ecole doctorale régionale d’Afrique centrale en infectiologie tropicale de Franceville, Gabon, Fondation pour la Recherche Scientifique, Cotonou, Benin, Institut fur Tropenmedizin, Universitat Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany

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• Lisette van Lieshout

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Leiden University Center for Infectious Diseases (LUCID), Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

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