High throughput detection of helminth eggs using mobile phone microscopy
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Shanmugam, Akshaya; HU, Van; Nguyen, Thanh Thanh; Aroian, Ram V.; Salthouse, Christopher
- Source
- 2015 41st Annual Northeast Biomedical Engineering Conference (NEBEC) Biomedical Engineering Conference (NEBEC), 2015 41st Annual Northeast. :1-2 Apr, 2015
- Subject
- Bioengineering
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Engineering Profession
General Topics for Engineers
Photonics and Electrooptics
Robotics and Control Systems
Microscopy
Microfluidics
Cameras
Throughput
Ports (Computers)
Mobile handsets
- Language
- ISSN
- 2160-6986
2160-7028
Traditional screening techniques and mass screening model of soil-transmitted helminths pose certain challenges to the eradication of infection within a population. The sereening technique proposed in Ihis paper overcomes these challenges by offering high throughput screening allow costs.