Dear Colleagues,
I am looking for the public domains with blood slide images infected with Malaria disease and their corresponding manual parasitemia (degree of Malaria infection) results. I will use these results to validate the accuracy of my model, which does automatic parasitemia detection. The model I am trying to propose does not require manual counting of the infected red-blood-cells using microscope, but its accuracy needs to be compared with the existing classical approach of manual counting.
Not within my expertise, but this is a paper which also describes an automated technique, if it may be of any help.They used slides from the Malaria Research and Reagent Reference Resource Center in Equatorial Guinea, as well as from the National Archive of Malaria Slides (NAMS) of Equatorial Guinea. "Performance of a malaria microscopy image analysis slide reading device" http://www.malariajournal.com/content/11/1/155
Hello Gittan,
Thank you for the link to that paper, which is indeed useful. I am, however, looking for a link to the archive with the Malaria blood slide images and their corresponding manual counting results. Any link to that? In the paper, I have have checked but I am still not seeing any link where I can get the data.
Hi Baraka,
What you want to do is an interesting research. However, you should review your methodology. Indeed for parasitaemia of infected slide with Plasmodium, one must read at least 100 more fields on optic microscope. Would you then have 100 images?
What I suggest you to complete your study is to take technicians will evaluate the parasitaemia of your blades and also assess your new technique.
Then we must not forget the statistical study course.
Hello Lamoussa,
Thanks for the valuable information. Yes, you have a good point. Let me work on the information you have provided.
Hi Baraka,
Find attached file a document that could be useful for you.
Hello Lamoussa,
Thanks for sharing this valuable information. I will as well go through it to understand the ideas.
Kind regards.
Hello Baraka,
The best way u can go about it is what Lamoussa had adviced.
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