A Robust Ensemble Model for Parasitic Egg Detection and Classification
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Recommended citation: ‘Wang Y, He Z, Huang S, et al. A Robust Ensemble Model For Parasitic Egg Detection And Classification[C]//2022 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP). IEEE, 2022: 4258-4262.’
Abstract: Intestinal parasitic infections, as a leading causes of morbidity worldwide, still lacks time-saving, high-sensitivity and user-friendly examination method. The development of deep learning technique reveals its broad application potential in biological image. In this paper, we apply several object detectors such as YOLOv5 and variant cascadeRCNNs to automatically discriminate parasitic eggs in microscope images. Through specially-designed optimization including raw data augmentation, model ensemble, transfer learning and test time augmentation, our model achieves excellent performance on challenge dataset. In addition, our model trained with added noise gains a high robustness against polluted input, which further broaden its applicability in practice.