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Record W4408765751 · doi:10.1101/2025.03.21.644632

You Only Look Once (YOLO) Based Machine Learning Algorithm for Real-Time Detection of Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification (LAMP) Diagnostics

2025· preprint· en· W4408765751 on OpenAlex
Biniyam Kahsay Mezgebo, Ryan J. Chaffee, Luis R. Castellanos, Shoaib Ashraf, Jack Burke-Gaffney, Johann Pitout, Bogdan I. Iorga, M. Ethan MacDonald, Dylan R. Pillai

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Bibliographic record

VenuebioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2025
Typepreprint
Languageen
FieldMaterials Science
TopicMachine Learning in Materials Science
Canadian institutionsAlberta Children's HospitalCalgary Laboratory ServicesUniversity of Calgary
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLoop-mediated isothermal amplificationLoop (graph theory)Isothermal processComputer scienceAlgorithmArtificial intelligencePhysicsMathematicsChemistryThermodynamics

Abstract

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Abstract Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) is a widely used rapid and affordable molecular DNA amplification method with minimal resource requirements. However, visual interpretation of results is subjective and prone to errors, leading to potential false-positive and negative results. To address this limitation, a machine-learning approach is proposed for automated LAMP classification based on digital images. The approach utilizes You Only Look Once (YOLOv8), a fast and robust object detection algorithm to locate and classify tubes within LAMP images, enabling automated categorization as positive or negative. The trained model achieved a high overall accuracy of 95.5% in classifying LAMP images into positive or negative. Additionally, the approach had a 98.0% precision and 92.7% recall for positive cases and 93.4% precision and 98.2% recall for negative cases, demonstrating its potential for real-time LAMP diagnosis and enhanced assay performance. This project demonstrated the platform’s suitability for real-time testing, offering an easy operation and rapid results.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.262
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.009
GPT teacher head0.231
Teacher spread0.221 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it