Low cost automated whole smear microscopy screening system for detection of acid fast bacilli

Yan Nei Law; Hanbin Jian; Norman W. S. Lo; Margaret Ip; Mia Mei Yuk Chan; Kai Man Kam; Xiaohua Wu

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0190988

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Low cost automated whole smear microscopy screening system for detection of acid fast bacilli

Yan Nei Law,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Hong Kong Applied Science & Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd. (ASTRI), Hong Kong SAR, China
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Hanbin Jian,

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Hong Kong Applied Science & Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd. (ASTRI), Hong Kong SAR, China
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Norman W. S. Lo,

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
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Margaret Ip,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
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Mia Mei Yuk Chan,

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Stanley Ho Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
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Kai Man Kam ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: kmkam@cuhk.edu.hk

Affiliation Stanley Ho Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0579-0307

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Xiaohua Wu

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Hong Kong Applied Science & Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd. (ASTRI), Hong Kong SAR, China
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Low cost automated whole smear microscopy screening system for detection of acid fast bacilli

Yan Nei Law,
Hanbin Jian,
Norman W. S. Lo,
Margaret Ip,
Mia Mei Yuk Chan,
Kai Man Kam,
Xiaohua Wu

Published: January 22, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0190988

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