Automating the Diagnosis and Quantification of Urinary Schistosomiasis

Schistosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease (NTD) that affects around a quarter-billion people worldwide. Most of the infected people live in tropical regions, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, where there is limited access to diagnostic and other relevant medical facilities. The current reference standard diagnostic procedure - conventional...

Development towards a robust low-cost Fourier Ptychographic microscope: For the detection of malaria parasites

This thesis discusses developments towards a low-cost Fourier Ptychographic microscope for label free imaging of malaria parasites.<br/>A review of the morphology and life cycle of malaria and the main diagnostic methods for its detection is followed by an introduction to Fourier Ptychography with emphasis on the underlying imaging principles...

Non-imaging optics: Using Laplacian magic windows and Zernike polynomials

In this report a semi-analytic solution to the Laplacian magic window is proposed. The Laplacian magic window is a term recently introduced in 2017[2]. When a uniform wavefront hits a refractive surface, it creates an illumination distribution behind the surface. When the curvature of the surface is sufficiently small, it can be related linearly...

A Deployable Telescope for Sub-Meter Resolutions from MicroSatellite Platforms

Sub-meter resolution satellite imagery serves a more and more important role in applications ranging from environmental protection, disaster response and precision farming to defence and security. Earth Observation at these resolutions has long been the realm of large and heavy telescopes. The costs of building and launching such systems are...