An Image Analysis Algorithm for Malaria Parasite Stage Classification and Viability Quantification

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Moon, Seunghyun ^a,d   Lee, Sukjun ^b   Kim, Heechang ^a   Freitas Junior, Lucio H ^c   Kang, Myungjoo ^d   Ayong, Lawrence ^b   Hansen, Michael A E ^a  

^a Image Mining (IM) Group Institut Pasteur Korea   (South Korea)

^b Institute Pasteur Korea   (South Korea)

^c Institute Pasteur Korea   (South Korea)

^d Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4',6 DIAMIDINO 2 PHENYLINDOLE; ARTEMISININ; CHLOROQUINE; FLUORESCENT DYE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; PYRIMETHAMINE; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ARTEMISININ DERIVATIVE; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; RED DYE CMXROS;

ACCURACY; ANTIPROTOZOAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL ISOLATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ENZYME ASSAY; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SOFTWARE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEROZOITE; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE VIABILITY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTIST LIFE CYCLE STAGE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; SCHIZONT; SIGNAL DETECTION; TROPHOZOITE; ALGORITHM; CELL SURVIVAL; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECTS; ERYTHROCYTE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IC50; IMAGE PROCESSING; PARASITOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROTOZOAN SPORE; STANDARDS;

ALGORITHMS; ANTIMALARIALS; ARTEMISININS; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; CHLOROQUINE; ERYTHROCYTES; FLUORESCENT DYES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INDOLES; INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION 50; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MITOCHONDRIA; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SPORES, PROTOZOAN;

EID: 84876583608     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061812     Document Type: Article

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