Table 1 We iteratively established the task design to ensure the quality of crowd annotations.

From: Task design for crowdsourced glioma cell annotation in microscopy images

Pilot experiment

Crowd

Target parameter

Number of MSIs

PE1

18 volunteers

Tile size

13

PE2

25 high school students

Crowd size, instruction

4

PE3

10 volunteers

Number of MSIs, instruction

4

PE4

35 Amazon Mechanical Turk workers

Instruction

8

  1. Therefore, we performed pilot experiments with volunteers, 10th grade students of a German cooperative comprehensive school, and a paid crowd (in this Table).