Crowdsourcing Malaria Parasite Quantification: An Online Game for Analyzing Images of Infected Thick Blood Smears
BackgroundThere are 600,000 new malaria cases daily worldwide. The gold standard for estimating the parasite burden and the corresponding severity of the disease consists in manually counting the number of parasites in blood smears through a microscope, a process that can tak...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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JMIR Publications
2012-11-01
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| Series: | Journal of Medical Internet Research |
| Online Access: | http://www.jmir.org/2012/6/e167/ |