On-chip imaging of Schistosoma haematobium eggs in urine for diagnosis by computer vision.

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Published in PLoS Negl Trop Dis on December 05, 2013

Authors

Ewert Linder1, Anne Grote, Sami Varjo, Nina Linder, Marianne Lebbad, Mikael Lundin, Vinod Diwan, Jari Hannuksela, Johan Lundin

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

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