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Automated Mobile Microscopy for Malaria Diagnosis and surveillance in Uganda
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Acronym
DS-I Malaria
Contact PI
Rose Nakasi
View email g.nakasirose@gmail.comProject type
Research Project
Grant Number
1U01EB035483
Summary
Malaria is one of the leading health problems of the developing world. Malaria endemicity has been attributed to poor diagnosis at the lab level. This quite often leads to disease misdiagnosis and drug resistance. Many developing countries are faced with a lack of critical mass of lab technicians to diagnose the disease through a gold standard mechanism of microscopy and this has worsened the already dire situation in some of these Countries. World over the trending technologies are now based on machine learning and deep learning techniques. These can be leveraged with the combination of smartphones to improve disease diagnosis. However, most of the previous work on automation for microscopy diagnosis has been carried out adhocly in the lab environment and no study seems to give a practical field deployable solution. The goal of the proposed research is to develop a rapid, low cost, accurate and simple in-field screening system for microscopy challenges like malaria. Specifically, this study will test and validate developed image analysis models for real time field-based diagnostics and surveillance of malaria. The proposed solution builds from our earlier work on mobile microscopy carried out at Makerere University AI Lab, that has confronted automated microscopy through exploiting recent technological advances in 3D printing to enable development of a low-cost 3D printed adapter. This has enabled attachment of a wide range of Smartphones on a microscope, furthermore, we have implemented deep learning models for pathogen detection to produce effective hardware and software respectively.
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