A proposal for automatic diagnosis of malaria: extended abstract

To aid efforts for the total elimination of malaria, effective and fast diagnosis of cases must be done. The gold standard for malaria diagnosis is microscopy. This process becomes problematic when cases are in far-flung rural areas as experts may not ...

Malaria is a life-threatening infectious disease with an estimated 229 million cases in the year 2019 worldwide. Plasmodium falciparum 1-deoxy-d-xylulose-5-phosphate reductoisomerase (PfDXR) is one of the key enzymes in the ...

• P. falciparum is the deadliest parasite and leading cause of malaria.

Malaria remains a major burden on global health, causing about half a million deaths every year. The objective of this work is to develop a fast, automated, smartphone-supported malaria diagnostic system. Our proposed system is the first system ...