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The development of deep learning has enabled neural networks to serve as computer\u2010aided diagnosis (CAD) tools, assisting doctors and experts in medical image diagnostics. Since the you only look once version\u20108 (YOLOv8) model has achieved satisfactory success in object detection tasks, it has been applied to various fracture detection tasks. This work introduces four variants of feature contexts excitation\u2010YOLOv8 (FCE\u2010YOLOv8) model, each incorporating a different FCE module (i.e., modules of squeeze\u2010and\u2010excitation (SE), global context (GC), gather\u2010excite (GE), and Gaussian context transformer (GCT)) to enhance the model performance. Experimental results on the GRAZPEDWRI\u2010DX dataset demonstrate that our proposed YOLOv8+GC\u2010M3 model improves the  value from 65.78% to 66.32%, outperforming the state\u2010of\u2010the\u2010art (SOTA) model while reducing inference time. 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