We think that image processing problems are difficult and interesting but there are others that elude us all the time. Malaria, a mosquito borne illness affects nearly 600,000 patients per day. The diagnosis unfortunately in many countries still uses the traditional Giemsa stain of blood. This requires a pathologist to study the slides and then make a decision on the illness. To see how difficult this problem is, a University in Spain, the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid has developed a game that shows how to detect malaria using imaging. Their model is not quite open-source but rather crowd-source which enables common people to visit their website and aid in the diagnosis. Go to malariaspot.org and help them highlight awareness about malaria.
