Development of a low-cost robotized 3D-prototype for automated optical microscopy diagnosis: An open-source system

• Allisson Dantas de Oliveira ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ ADO and CRM are contributed equally to this work and share first authorship.

  Affiliations Computational Biology and Complex Systems Group, Physics Department, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Castelldefels, Spain, Microbiology Department, Vall d’Hebron Research Institute (VHIR), Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8267-9760

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• Carles Rubio Maturana ,

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

  * E-mail: carles.rubio@vhir.org

  ¶‡ ADO and CRM are contributed equally to this work and share first authorship.

  Affiliations Microbiology Department, Vall d’Hebron Research Institute (VHIR), Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain, Department of Microbiology and Genetics, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Barcelona, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5615-9278

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• Francesc Zarzuela Serrat,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Visualization

  Affiliation Microbiology Department, Vall d’Hebron Research Institute (VHIR), Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain

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• Bruno Motta Carvalho,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Informatics and Applied Mathematics, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil

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• Elena Sulleiro,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Microbiology Department, Vall d’Hebron Research Institute (VHIR), Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain, Department of Microbiology and Genetics, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Barcelona, Spain, CIBERINFEC, ISCIII- CIBER de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

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• Clara Prats,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Computational Biology and Complex Systems Group, Physics Department, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Castelldefels, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1398-7559

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• Anna Veiga,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Probitas Foundation, Barcelona, Spain

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• Mercedes Bosch,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Probitas Foundation, Barcelona, Spain

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• Javier Zulueta,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Probitas Foundation, Barcelona, Spain

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• Alberto Abelló,

  Roles Conceptualization, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Database Technologies and Information Group, Service and Information Systems Engineering Department, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain

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• Elisa Sayrol,

  Roles Conceptualization, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Tecnocampus, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Mataró, Spain

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• Joan Joseph-Munné,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Microbiology Department, Vall d’Hebron Research Institute (VHIR), Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain

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• Daniel López-Codina

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

  Affiliation Computational Biology and Complex Systems Group, Physics Department, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Castelldefels, Spain

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