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Crowdsourcing Malaria Parasite Quantification: An Online Game for Analyzing Images of Infected Thick Blood Smears

BACKGROUND: There 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 take more than 20 minutes...

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Autores principales: Luengo-Oroz, Miguel Angel, Arranz, Asier, Frean, John
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Gunther Eysenbach 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3510720/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23196001
http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/jmir.2338