Malaria Detection using Open Microscope and Deep learning

Virtually Maker Faire 2020

May 22nd-23rd

Malaria is a life-threatening disease. It’s typically transmitted through the bite of an infected Anopheles mosquito. Infected mosquitoes carry the Plasmodium parasite. When this mosquito bites you, the parasite is released into your bloodstream.

Once the parasites are inside your body, they travel to the liver, where they mature. After several days, the mature parasites enter the bloodstream and begin to infect red blood cells.

Open-source hardware has the potential to revolutionise the way we build scientific instruments; with the advent of readily available 3D printers, mechanical designs can now be shared, improved, and replicated faster and more easily than ever before. However, printed parts are typically plastic and often perform poorly compared to traditionally machined mechanisms. Open MicroScope is cheap, an open-source microscope that can easily build from a MakerSpace, the main goal is to give quality health checkup to poor people and societies to get medical attention when it's needed.

The proposed solution will benefit the people who live in a rural area, and they need to travel long distance for any medical situation, whether emergency or not. people have malaria parasites only need to visit a doctor for getting medical attention, and they can test anytime with the open scope