Comparison of a Smart-Phone based Automated Parasite Egg Count System to the McMaster & mini-FLOTAC Methods

Comparative studies on faecal egg counting techniques used for the detection of gastrointestinal parasites of equines: A systematic review

“…Along with these centrifugation-based flotation techniques, simple or gravitation-based methods such as the McMaster ( Gordon and Whitlock, 1939 ), the modified McMaster ( Whitlock, 1948 ), FLOTAC® (based on the principle of the Wisconsin technique) ( Cringoli, 2006 ; Cringoli et al., 2010 ), FECPAK G1 ® ( McCoy et al., 2005 ; Presland et al., 2005 ), Mini-FLOTAC® ( Barda et al, 2013 ; Cringoli et al., 2017 ) and the FECPAK G1 ® and FECPAK G2 ® ( Tyson et al., 2020 ), were developed, and are being used in the field. More recently, artificial intelligence-based automated counting techniques have been developed for FEC ( Scare et al., 2016 ; Slusarewicz et al., 2016 ; Scare et al., 2017 ; Cain et al., 2020 ; Elghryani et al., 2020 ; Nagamori et al, 2020 ; Cringoli et al., 2021 ). The available FEC techniques (FECT) vary in performance parameters, including estimates of sensitivity, specificity, precision and accuracy ( Ballweber et al., 2014 ; Nielsen, 2021 ).…”