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The crowd storms the ivory tower

Nature Methods volume 15, pages 579–580 (2018)Cite this article

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Quanti.us is a platform that allows large-scale manual image annotation by a distributed workforce through Amazon’s Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing marketplace.

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Fig. 1: Biomedical image analysis in the age of big data.

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  1. Electron Microscopy STP, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK

    Martin L. Jones

  2. Biomedical Research Lead, Zooniverse, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    Helen Spiers

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