Loh De Rong, Yong Wen Xin, Yapeter Jullian, Subburaj Karupppasamy, Chandramohanadas Rajesh
Pillar of Information Systems Technology and Design, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore, Singapore.
Pillar of Engineering Product Development, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore, Singapore.
Comput Med Imaging Graph. 2021 Mar;88:101845. doi: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2020.101845. Epub 2021 Jan 12.
Accurate and early diagnosis is critical to proper malaria treatment and hence death prevention. Several computer vision technologies have emerged in recent years as alternatives to traditional microscopy and rapid diagnostic tests. In this work, we used a deep learning model called Mask R-CNN that is trained on uninfected and Plasmodium falciparum-infected red blood cells. Our predictive model produced reports at a rate 15 times faster than manual counting without compromising on accuracy. Another unique feature of our model is its ability to generate segmentation masks on top of bounding box classifications for immediate visualization, making it superior to existing models. Furthermore, with greater standardization, it holds much potential to reduce errors arising from manual counting and save a significant amount of human resources, time, and cost.
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