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This instrument however provides poor quality images due to the limitation of magnification (10<jats:inline-formula><jats:alternatives><jats:tex-math>$$\\times$$<\/jats:tex-math><mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\">\n                  <mml:mo>\u00d7<\/mml:mo>\n                <\/mml:math><\/jats:alternatives><\/jats:inline-formula>), causing difficulty in parasite detection and species classification. In this paper, we propose a CNN-based technique using transfer learning strategy to enhance the efficiency of automatic parasite classification in poor-quality microscopic images. The patch-based technique with a sliding window is employed to search for the location of the eggs. Two networks, AlexNet and ResNet50, are examined with a trade-off between architecture size and classification performance. The results show that our proposed framework outperforms the state-of-the-art object recognition methods. 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