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This research endeavors to introduce Artificial Intelligence based methodology for automated detection and classification of renal calculi within the CT images. <jats:italic>\n                     <jats:bold>Method<\/jats:bold>\n                  <\/jats:italic>: To identify the CT images with kidney stones, a comprehensive exploration of various ML and DL architectures, along with rigorous experimentation with diverse hyperparameters, was undertaken to refine the model\u2019s performance. The proposed workflow involves two key stages: (1) precise segmentation of pathological regions of interest (ROIs) using DL algorithms, and (2) binary classification of the segmented ROIs using both ML and DL models. <jats:italic>\n                     <jats:bold>Results<\/jats:bold>\n                  <\/jats:italic>: The SwinTResNet model, optimized using the RMSProp algorithm with a learning rate of 0.0001, demonstrated optimal performance, achieving a training accuracy of 97.27% and a validation accuracy of 96.16% in the segmentation task. The Vision Transformer (ViT) architecture, when coupled with the ADAM optimizer and a learning rate of 0.0001, exhibited robust convergence and consistently achieved the highest performance metrics. 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