Malaria parasite detection in thick blood smear microscopic images using modified YOLOV3 and YOLOV4 models
Abstract Background Manual microscopic examination of Leishman/Giemsa stained thin and thick blood smear is still the “gold standard” for malaria diagnosis. One of the drawbacks of this method is that its accuracy, consistency, and diagnosis speed depend on microscopists’ diagnostic and technical sk...
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Language: | English |
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BMC
2021-03-01
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Series: | BMC Bioinformatics |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-021-04036-4 |