Can explainable AI classify shrike (Laniidae) eggs by uncovering species-wide pigmentation patterns?

• Paweł Pstrokoński ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: pawel.pstrokonski@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Animal Breeding, Institute of Animal Sciences, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2728-2223

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• Łukasz Roszkowiak,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Processing and Analysis of Microscopic Images, Nalecz Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering PAS, Warsaw, Poland

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• Anna Korzyńska,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Processing and Analysis of Microscopic Images, Nalecz Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering PAS, Warsaw, Poland

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• Wojciech Wójcik,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Animal Breeding, Institute of Animal Sciences, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8066-9924

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• Martin Päckert,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Senckenberg Natural History Collections Dresden, Dresden, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5045-0139

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• Joanna Rosenberger,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Poultry Breeding, Faculty of Biology, Institute of Animal Breeding, Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8169-6377

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• Dominika Mierzwa-Szymkowiak,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5851-5619

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• Magdalena Sepkowska,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Count Antoni Ostrowski Museum in Tomaszow Mazowiecki, Tomaszow Mazowiecki, Poland

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• Jan Lontkowski,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Museum of Natural History, Wroclaw University, Wroclaw, Poland

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• Marek Słupek,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Museum of Jacek Malczewski in Radom, Radom, Poland

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• Krzysztof Damaziak

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

  Affiliation Department of Animal Breeding, Institute of Animal Sciences, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

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