Daily CVPR - Tuesday

CVPR Daily : Where do you study? Mahdieh : I am a PhD student at University of Missouri Columbia and doing my summer fellowship at NIH. CVPR Daily : Can I ask you what your work is about? Mahdieh : Our main goal is to compute malaria infection ratio. Infection ratio means the number of infected cells over the total number of detected cells. If you have such an infection ratio, then in the next step, we can talk about the patient’s stage of disease. CVPR Daily : Can I ask you whether that is a new model? Mahdieh : It’s a new model if you go to the literature. There are not that many publications which have all of these different stages of the work. We started from scratch, now we have people at NIAID (National Institute of Digital Imaging. They provide us the images, and then we process the images at NIH and there we start to do some preprocessing to make the images ready for the most challenging part of the pipeline, which is red blood cell segmentation. CVPR Daily : If I understand correctly, this research has very clear domain of application. Mahdieh : It has. Not only malaria can use such a pipeline, but apparently, also Zika? This infectious disease also has the same kind of processing. If you apply the same image processing on those images, then it could also be applied there. 8 CVPR Daily: Tuesday Presentation Mahdieh Poostchi