On December 18th, Noor van Driel successfully defended her MSc thesis titled “Automating malaria diagnosis: a machine learning approach: Erythrocyte segmentation and parasite identification in thin blood smear microscopy images using convolutional neural networks.” In…
On December 10th, Casper van Engelenburg graduated within the INSPiRED project on “Potential enrichments in malaria diagnostics: hyperspectral imaging and group-equivariant neural networks”. The first part of his MSc. research exploits hyperspectral imagery (HI) as new potential…
Our paper titled “A Stakeholder Analysis of Schistosomiasis Diagnostic Landscape in South-West Nigeria: Insights for Diagnostics Co-creation” has been published in Frontiers Public Health. Full paper can be found here. Background: Schistosomiasis, one of the neglected…
In November 2020, Prosper presented the progress of his research that is based on development of an automated diagnostic device for the schistosomamansoniand hookworm infections, at the ANDI centre of excellence for Malaria Diagnosis, University of…
In August 2020, Prosper (PhD student, WP1) attended the Biophotonics and Imaging Graduate Summer School, BIGSS2020, organised by the National University of Ireland, Galway. It included five days of lectures by world leaders in Biophotonics and imaging, and live…
The latest prototype of the Schistoscope has been delivered to the lab in CERMEL, Gabon from TU Delft, The Netherland on 3rd of August 2020 the amidst joy from the INSPiRED team. The prototype, an…
Brice and the team at CERMEL, bidding farewell to visiting masters students from the University of Science and Technology of Masku, Franceville, Gabon. Brice demonstrated amongst others preparing stool samples for analysis for Building a biobank in…
In June 2020, Brice (PhD student, WP3) conducted field research in the Issingavillage that is located within the Ngounie Province in Gabon. Brice collected blood samples that would be later used for malaria and filaria screening. Brice also…
In December 2019 a field study was conducted by of the INSPiRED team to Ibadan North and Akinyele Local Government Areas (LGAs) of Oyo State, Nigeria initiated by PhD student and PhD supervisor of UI….
A public symposium was held at the TU Delft during the kickoff of the project. It was was attended by 30 participants drawn from various fields and institutions, including students, project managers, scientists and e-health specialists…
