ABOUT US

Malaria System is a research Project created in 2012 to aid the diagnosis of malaria in remote areas. The project brings together a team of experts in their respective areas. The results obtained so far are available in the below publications.

Research Articles

• Dantas Oliveira A. et al. (2018) An Automatic System for Computing Malaria Parasite Density in Thin Blood Films. In: Mendoza M., Velastín S. (eds) Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis, Computer Vision, and Applications. CIARP 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10657. Springer, Cham. URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75193-1_23
• Oliveira AD, Prats C, Espasa M, Zarzuela Serrat F, Montañola Sales C, Silgado A, Codina DL, Arruda ME, i Prat JG, Albuquerque J. The Malaria System MicroApp: A New, Mobile Device-Based Tool for Malaria Diagnosis - JMIR Res Protoc 2017;6(4):e70 URL: http://www.researchprotocols.org/2017/4/e70 DOI: 10.2196/resprot.6758 PMID:28442456
• Allisson D. Oliveira, Giordano Cabral, D. López, Caetano Firmo, F. Zarzuela Serrat, and J. Albuquerque. 2013. A proposal for automatic diagnosis of malaria: extended abstract. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW '13 Companion). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 681-682. DOI: 10.1145/2487788.2488022
• Allisson D. de Oliveira, M. E. Arruda, J. G. Prat, D. L. Codina, F. Z. Serrat, J. O. Albuquerque, Malaria system: a new tool for automatic diagnosis of malaria in mobile devices. 7th Word Congress Medicine 2.0. 2014. URL: http://www.medicine20congress.com/ocs/index.php/med/med2014b/paper/view/2487

In Press

• MalariaSystem MicroApp in La Vanguardia [PDF]
• Master Tesis in Portuguese (by PPGIA-UFRPE, Brazil)  http://www.tede.ufrpe.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=2316
• Ph.D. Thesis in Portuguese (by PPGSC-UFRN , Brazil and BIOCOMSC-UPC, Spain) https://repositorio.ufrn.br/jspui/handle/123456789/29654

Test Applications

• Microscope Application by Mateu Espasa VHIR [Youtube]
• An Automatic System for Computing Malaria Parasite Density in Thin Blood Films. [Try the Beta Now!]
• Translation Matlab to Python code for the analysis and prediction of COVID-19 created by (BIOCOMSC) [Code and app available on github]

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