STOP SPAM
FIGHT MALARIA
MALARIA
216 million cases worldwide
kills > 660,000 people per year
most prevalent in less-developed countries
IT'S IN THE BLOOD
Under a microscope, the malaria parasites can be detected in blood samples
But there aren't enough clinicians or clinics to meet demand
LET THE PEOPLE TAKE THE SAMPLES
Low cost add-on optics for smart phones are enabling affordable, portable and internet-connected microscopes
‘Thick smear’ blood sample images can be collected on location
But the problem is the low certainty of a single untrained person studying the image and making an accurate diagnosis
HOLD THAT THOUGHT
LET'S TALK ABOUT SPAM
Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart
'CAPTCHA's protect web services against automated bots trying to cheat their systems Worldwide we spend more than 500,000 hours every day processing CAPTCHAs to prove we're human More than 1000 are solved every SECOND
WORKING FOR Google
Google's reCAPTCHA service is arguably the most secure and robust freely-available CAPTCHA
but it's not just anti-bot protection..
Only one of the words is a known test word, the other is an image of an unknown word from a scanned book or article. If you pass the human test by getting the first word right, reCAPTCHA stores your answer for the unknown word
Google are getting the world to digitise books through reCAPTCHA
LET'S GET THE WORLD TO READ MALARIA
SELF CHECK
The blood testing hardware kit and app will enable smartphone owners to do their own high quality 'thick smear' tests to evaluate their friends and family for malaria.
The images must pass an simple built-in app quality assessment, and then can be uploaded to the mediCAPTCHA server.
The images are securely tagged with the patient's contact and location detils. Once the image passes through the mediCAPTCHA process, and reaches stastistical confidence thresholds, the patient is notified of the diagnosis and given advice for gaining treatment if needed.
Data is also provided to healthcare organisations to aid localised medical support strategies.
"In Five Years, Most Africans Will Have Smartphones" - Tech Crunch, 2012
THE CAPTCHA
To be spread worldwide throughout the internet..
WHY?
For the patients
- Reduced time to diagnosis
For the clinicians
- Support though intelligent automated diagnosis
- Reduced work load
For web users
- A CAPTCHA that is perfectly suited to touch-screen devices
THE NUMBERS
If mediCAPTCHA took 10% of the market share of reCAPTCHA...
30 seconds after the image has been uploaded,
the sample will have been evaluated by over 2000 humans in a double-blind quality-checked process
fight malaria
