Participants will inspect retinal images, label relevant lesions, assign approved grading categories after training, identify ungradable images, perform quality control, and flag difficult cases for ophthalmologist adjudication.
Expected outputs include:
Curated diabetic retinal-image dataset.
Lesion annotations.
Gradability labels.
DR severity labels.
Referable-DR labels.
Inter-rater reliability report.
Candidate grading model.
Weighted kappa and ordinal classification analyses.
Sensitivity/specificity/AUROC analysis.
Manuscript, conference poster, and certificates.
Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
Artificial Intelligence, Ophthalmology, Endocrinology
Jorge Racedo at microscopIA, External Clinicians
Open internationally to medical students, health-science students, physicians, biomedical engineers, data-science students, laboratory professionals, and other students or professionals whose backgrounds are relevant to the project.
Prior experience in artificial intelligence is not required. Participants will receive project-specific training before independent annotation begins.
Applicants should have:
Professional or academic interest in the clinical area.
Sufficient English proficiency for scientific work.
Reliable internet access.
Strong attention to detail.
Ability to follow standardized research protocols.
Availability for approximately 3–5 hours per week.
Willingness to participate in scientific writing and quality-control activities.
Participation is offered through microscopIA membership. Selected applicants must hold a membership tier that permits enrollment in Join a Project and comply with the applicable Membership and Project Terms throughout their participation.
Any Country
Clinical Annotation, Data Curation, Data Validation, Data Quality Control, Literature Review, Database Development, Manuscript Preparation, Manuscript Revision, Poster Preparation, Conference Presentation, Response to Reviewers, AI Training (Data Processing and Labeling)
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English, Spanish
- Ophthalmology training will cover retinal anatomy, principal DR lesions, grading systems, referable DR definitions, image quality, annotation standards, and common mimics. Experienced parasitologists or microscopists will adjudicate clinical labels. Laboratory species confirmation will be incorporated where available.
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Each participant may declare a maximum of two institutional affiliations.
Format:
Department, Organization (Hospital, University, Company), City, Country.microscopIA will cover approved publication fees associated with the anticipated regional manuscript.
Participants will not be required to personally pay approved article-processing charges.
Memberships are reinvested to pay microscopIA staff (epidemiologists, engineers, data scientists) salaries and to cover the publication fees for the resulting manuscripts. This maintain our work neutral, financially self-sustainable, and without any existing conflict of interest to maintain rigor and integrity in evidence generation.