Non-Invasive System for Detecting Malaria Parasites

Abstract

In Sudan and in the other side of the world, malaria diagnosis still relies primarily on invasive methods that require taking sample of blood from a patient. However, these methods require highexperience and trained technicians to correctly determine the disease, and this diagnosis is errorprone due to human tiredness. The low number of technicians in Sudan will reduce the attempt to control malaria. Thus, this project aims to find another method to diagnosis malaria noninvasively without taking a sample of blood using infrared (IR) laser source for detecting hemozoin particles in the blood under the effect of magnetic field up to 0.6 Tesla. This study was validated by preliminary experiments across seventeen patients, the obtained results showed that the developed method has accuracy of (93.75%). Less pain, small duration, prevent the spread of infectious diseases and more comfortable malaria test will be presented by this study.