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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Main Authors: Fetulhak Abdurahman, Kinde Anlay Fante, Mohammed Aliy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-03-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-021-04036-4