Toward AI-Assisted Poultry Coccidiosis Diagnosis: Evaluating Gemini and BiomedParse on Eimeria Microscopy Images

Abstract:Coccidiosis caused by Eimeria parasites is a major economic burden in poultry production, and effective control depends on accurate species-level diagnosis. This study evaluates whether a general-purpose multimodal large language model can support such diagnosis. Google Gemini was assessed on 4,225 mi- croscopy images covering the seven fowl-infecting Eimeria species under two prompting conditions, one without candidate labels and one with a predefined class list, and was further tested for pathology-report generation, while BiomedParse was examined for parasite segmentation. Without candidate labels, the model produced broad and taxonomically inconsistent outputs. With candidate labels, overall accuracy reached only 14.9%, with a strong bias toward E. tenella at 74% and no correct classifications for E. acervulina, E. mitis and E. praecox. Generated treatment reports were coherent but unverified, and segmentation was only partial. Current multimodal models are therefore not yet reliable for standalone Eimeria diagnosis without domain-specific fine- tuning and expert validation.

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)

arXiv:2609.31679 [cs.CV]

(or arXiv:2609.31679v1 [cs.CV] for this version)

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