A malaria diagnostic tool based on computer vision screening and visualization of Plasmodium falciparum candidate areas in digitized blood smears

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Linder, Nina ^a   Turkki, Riku ^a   Walliander, Margarita ^a   Mårtensson, Andreas ^b   Diwan, Vinod ^b   Rahtu, Esa ^c   Pietikäinen, Matti ^c   Lundin, Mikael ^a   Lundin, Johan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BLOOD SMEAR; COMPUTER; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; GRAM STAINING; IMMERSION; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROBABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; TROPHOZOITE; VISION TEST; HUMAN; MALARIA; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

HUMANS; MALARIA; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 84929056280     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0104855     Document Type: Article

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