Crowdsourcing Malaria Parasite Quantification: An Online Game for Analyzing Images of Infected Thick Blood Smears

November 29, 2012

Background: There are 600,000 new malaria cases daily worldwide. The gold standard for estimating the parasite burden and the corresponding severity of the disease consists in manually counting the number of parasites in blood smears […]

Excerpt of the Q&A with Sebastian Seung about the game Eyewire

November 8, 2012

What is a connectome, and why does it matter? Look inside the mind with Sebastian Seung in this Q&A, originally published in Time. Sebastian Seung is a multi-disciplinary expert whose research efforts have spanned the […]