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Radiologists validated the bounding boxes generated by the model to assess clinical reliability.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec sec-type=\"results\">\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The custom DETR achieved confidence score up to 99\u202f% in detecting gallstones and gallbladder regions, outperforming RT-DETR, YOLOv8, and YOLO-NAS. The method demonstrated mean average precision improvements of 13\u202f% and 14\u202f% compared to YOLOv8 and YOLO-NAS, respectively. 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