Remote analysis of sputum smears for mycobacterium tuberculosis quantification using digital crowdsourcing

• Lara García Delgado ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Lara García Delgado, María Postigo

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Biomedical Image Technologies, ETSI Telecomunicación, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Consorcio de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina (CIBEBBN), Madrid, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8325-7730

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• María Postigo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Lara García Delgado, María Postigo

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Spotlab, Madrid, Spain

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• Daniel Cuadrado,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Spotlab, Madrid, Spain

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• Sara Gil-Casanova,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration

  Affiliation Biomedical Image Technologies, ETSI Telecomunicación, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

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• Álvaro Martínez Martínez,

  Roles Software

  Affiliation Spotlab, Madrid, Spain

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• María Linares,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations Department Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pharmacy School, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Department of Hematology, Hospital 12 Octubre de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

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• Paloma Merino,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Visualization

  Affiliation Clinical Microbiology Department, Clinico San Carlos Hospital, Madrid, Spain

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• Manuel Gimo,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Centro de Investigação em Saúde de Manhiça (CISM), Maputo, Mozambique

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• Silvia Blanco,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliations Centro de Investigação em Saúde de Manhiça (CISM), Maputo, Mozambique, ISGlobal, Hospital Clínic—Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

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• Quique Bassat,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centro de Investigação em Saúde de Manhiça (CISM), Maputo, Mozambique, ISGlobal, Hospital Clínic—Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ICREA, Barcelona, Spain, Pediatrics Department, Pediatric Infectious Diseases Unit, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu (Universidad de Barcelona), Barcelona, Spain, Consorcio de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0875-7596

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• Andrés Santos,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Biomedical Image Technologies, ETSI Telecomunicación, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Consorcio de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina (CIBEBBN), Madrid, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7423-9135

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• Alberto L. García-Basteiro,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations ISGlobal, Hospital Clínic—Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ICREA, Barcelona, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Infecciosas (CIBERINFEC), Barcelona, Spain

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• María J. Ledesma-Carbayo ,

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

  * E-mail: mj.ledesma@upm.es

  ¶‡ MJLC and MALO also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Biomedical Image Technologies, ETSI Telecomunicación, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Consorcio de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina (CIBEBBN), Madrid, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6846-3923

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• Miguel Á. Luengo-Oroz

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

  ¶‡ MJLC and MALO also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Biomedical Image Technologies, ETSI Telecomunicación, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Consorcio de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina (CIBEBBN), Madrid, Spain, Spotlab, Madrid, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8694-2001

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