National Institute of Health Plasmodium vivax Thick Blood Smear Image Dataset

Article Title: Diagnosing Malaria Patients with Plasmodium falciparum and vivax Using Deep Learning for Thick Smear Images

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Description

It is a thick, Giemsa-stained blood smear image dataset.

Demography

• Country: Bangladesh
• City: Chittagong
• Study Area: Chittagong Medical College Hospital
• Number of patients: 200 patients
• Parasite’s species: Plasmodium vivax.

Imaging Technique

• Optical Train: Smartphone appended to a microscope eyepiece
• Image Resolution: 3024 x 4032
• Microscope: Light Microscope
• Magnification: 100×

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Infected

Uninfected

Dataset Availability

Status	Dataset Link	DOI
Publicly available	Dataset	https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics11111994

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Kassim, Y.M.; Yang, F.; Yu, H.; Maude, R.J.; Jaeger, S. Diagnosing Malaria Patients with Plasmodium falciparum and vivax Using Deep Learning for Thick Smear Images. Diagnostics 2021, 11, 1994. https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics11111994