Identification of Snails and Schistosoma of Medical Importance via Convolutional Neural Networks: A Proof-of-Concept Application for Human Schistosomiasis

• Main Authors: Krti Tallam (Author), Zac Yung-Chun Liu (Author), Andrew J. Chamberlin (Author), Isabel J. Jones (Author), Pretom Shome (Author), Gilles Riveau (Author), Raphael A. Ndione (Author), Lydie Bandagny (Author), Nicolas Jouanard (Author), Paul Van Eck (Author), Ton Ngo (Author), Susanne H. Sokolow (Author), Giulio A. De Leo (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2021-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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In recent decades, computer vision has proven remarkably effective in addressing diverse issues in public health, from determining the diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of diseases in humans to predicting infectious disease outbreaks. Here, we investigate whether convolutional neural networks (CNN...