Detecting soil-transmitted helminth and Schistosoma mansoni eggs in Kato-Katz stool smear microscopy images: A comprehensive in- and out-of-distribution evaluation of YOLOv7 variants

• Mohammed Aliy Mohammed ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mohammed Aliy Mohammed, Esla Timothy Anzaku

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

  * E-mail: mohammedaliy.mohammed@ugent.be

  Affiliations IDLab, Ghent University - imec, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, School of Biomedical Engineering, Jimma Institute of Technology, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1912-5666

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• Esla Timothy Anzaku ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mohammed Aliy Mohammed, Esla Timothy Anzaku

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Electronics and Information Systems, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, Center for Biosystems and Biotech Data Science, Ghent University Global Campus, Incheon, South Korea

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• Peter Kenneth Ward,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations IDLab, Ghent University - imec, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, Enaiblers AB, Uppsala, Sweden, Department of Translational Physiology, Infectiology and Public Health, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

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• Bruno Levecke,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Translational Physiology, Infectiology and Public Health, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

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• Janarthanan Krishnamoorthy,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Biomedical Engineering, Jimma Institute of Technology, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia

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• Wesley De Neve,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Electronics and Information Systems, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, Center for Biosystems and Biotech Data Science, Ghent University Global Campus, Incheon, South Korea

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• Sofie Van Hoecke

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation IDLab, Ghent University - imec, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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