Kankanet: An artificial neural network-based object detection smartphone application and mobile microscope as a point-of-care diagnostic aid for soil-transmitted helminthiases

• Ariel Yang ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ariel.yang@stonybrookmedicine.edu

  Affiliations School of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America, Global Health Institute, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3993-6087

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• Nahid Bakhtari,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliations School of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America, Global Health Institute, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

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• Liana Langdon-Embry ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Liana Langdon-Embry, Emile Redwood

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations School of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America, Global Health Institute, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

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• Emile Redwood ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Liana Langdon-Embry, Emile Redwood

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations School of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America, Global Health Institute, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

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• Simon Grandjean Lapierre,

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

  Affiliations Global Health Institute, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America, Immunopathology axis, Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada, Mycobacteria Unit, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Antananarivo, Madagascar

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• Patricia Rakotomanga,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Helminthiasis Unit, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Antananarivo, Madagascar

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• Armand Rafalimanantsoa,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation Helminthiasis Unit, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Antananarivo, Madagascar

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• Juan De Dios Santos,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2726-1900

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• Inès Vigan-Womas,

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Immunology of Infectious Diseases Unit, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Antananarivo, Madagascar

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• Astrid M. Knoblauch,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Global Health Institute, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America, Mycobacteria Unit, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Antananarivo, Madagascar, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland

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• Luis A. Marcos

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

  Affiliations Global Health Institute, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Stony Brook University, New York, United States of America

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