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Shameless but relevant plug. I co-founded a startup with Mark Plaskow earlier this year to help make hematological analysis including detection of parasites mo
by cenal 8y ago
Shameless but relevant plug.
I co-founded a startup with Mark Plaskow earlier this year to help make hematological analysis including detection of parasites more accurate and affordable. Mark has been doing image based detection of parasites for years and is published here: https://malariajournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1475-2875-11-155 https://malariajournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/14...
There are various issues with capturing images of this quality level in the field. It’s something we have made a lot of progress on.
We hope our devices can have an outsized impact in these regions.
If anyone reading is interested in our work we have a teaser page live at http://www.paean.io http://www.paean.io and can be reached by email using info@paean.io
- killjoywashere 8y agoThanks for posting, I've been looking into this space. Have you looked at the College of American Pathologists Blood Parasites survey? The organisms one may encounter in the peripheral smear of a patient with fevers in the tropics is not limited to malaria (filariasis, babesiosis, etc). How are you dealing with those?
- cenal 8y agoWe believe that our solution can automate the work Doctors do with microscopes. This isn’t limited to one parasite. We can provide a demo today of our robotics that can automate these tests.