Evaluation of Non-Invasive Thermal Imaging for detection of Viability of Onchocerciasis worms. (arXiv:2203.12620v1 [eess.IV])

Onchocerciasis is causing blindness in over half a million people in the
world today. Drug development for the disease is crippled as there is no way of
measuring effectiveness of the drug without an invasive procedure. Drug
efficacy measurement through assessment of viability of onchocerca worms
requires the patients to undergo nodulectomy which is invasive, expensive,
time-consuming, skill-dependent, infrastructure dependent and lengthy process.
In this paper, we discuss the first-ever study that proposes use of machine
learning over thermal imaging …

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