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The derived ML-based algorithms demonstrated excellent discriminative performance for the presence of CC (area under the receiver operating characteristic curve [AUC]: YOLOv5s, 0.989, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.982\u20130.994; Faster R-CNN, 0.986, 95% CI: 0.980\u20130.991; SSD, 0.968, 95% CI: 0.956\u20130.977) and TC (AUC: YOLOv5s, 0.989, 95% CI: 0.977\u20130.997; Faster R-CNN, 0.981, 95% CI: 0.965\u20130.991; SSD, 0.982, 95% CI: 0.973\u20130.990). Furthermore, in the frames where the model could correctly indicate the presence of CC or TC, it also accurately localized CC (intersection-over-union: YOLOv5s, 0.753, 95% CI: 0.739\u20130.765; Faster R-CNN, 0.720, 95% CI: 0.709\u20130.732; SSD, 0.739, 95% CI: 0.726\u20130.751) or TC (intersection-over-union: YOLOv5s, 0.739, 95% CI: 0.722\u20130.755; Faster R-CNN, 0.709, 95% CI: 0.687\u20130.730; SSD, 0.713, 95% CI: 0.695\u20130.730). 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