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Controlled comparative study of YOLOv8-Pose, YOLOv11-Pose, and Detectron2 for vertebrae detection and keypoint estimation

Avinash Bansal ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: avinash.bansal@vsb.cz

Affiliation Department of Cybernetics and Biomedical Engineering, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, FEECS, Ostrava, Poruba, Czech Republic

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3114-5870

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Jan Kubíček,

Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cybernetics and Biomedical Engineering, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, FEECS, Ostrava, Poruba, Czech Republic
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Shalini Garg

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cybernetics and Biomedical Engineering, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, FEECS, Ostrava, Poruba, Czech Republic
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Controlled comparative study of YOLOv8-Pose, YOLOv11-Pose, and Detectron2 for vertebrae detection and keypoint estimation

Avinash Bansal,
Jan Kubíček,
Shalini Garg

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Published: April 21, 2026
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0347290

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