Fig. 10: Detection of parasites on mHealth platforms.

a Detection of Giardia cyst and Cryptosporidium (oo)cyst in food and water. The figure shows a representative image of (oo)cysts acquired by a smartphone microscope with a one mm ball lens and white LED light illumination (figure adapted with permission from Shrestha et al. ¹⁹⁸). b Detection of parasite eggs in feces. The figure shows an example of a whole-field image of a sample in a McMaster chamber and image processing results during threshold segmentation (figure adapted with permission from Slusarewicz et al. ¹⁹⁹). c Detection of malaria in blood. The figure shows an image of the mouse malaria strain blood smear without polarized light using a Leica microscope with a ×40 magnification objective (figure adapted with permission from Pirnstill et al. ²⁰⁰).