An article written by Vinayak Joshi, VisionQuest's Senior Scientist, and his collaborators at the University of Liverpool, Michigan State University, Kilimanjaro Centre for Community Ophthalmology, and the Blantyre Malaria Project has been published in Nature Scientific Reports.
The article titled "Automated Detection of Malarial Retinopathy in Digital Fundus Images for Improved Diagnosis in Malawian Children with Clinically Defined Cerebral Malaria" presents VisionQuest's automated software system to analyze retinal color images for malaria retinopathy (MR) lesions: retinal whitening, vessel discoloration, and white-centered hemorrhages. This automated system for detecting MR using retinal color images has the potential to improve the diagnostic accuracy of cerebral malaria, which is the cause of the majority of malaria-associated deaths in African children.
The article is openly accessible and can be found by following this link: http://www.nature.com/articles/srep42703#t1