Advances in Smartphone-Based Point-of-Care Diagnostics

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 236-247

  Xu, Xiayu ^a   Akay, Altug ^b   Wei, Huilin ^c   Wang, Shuqi ^a,d,e,f   Pingguan Murphy, Belinda ^g   Erlandsson, Björn Erik ^b   Li, Xiujun ^h   Lee, Wongu ⁱ   Hu, Jie ^a   Wang, Lin ^a   Xu, Feng ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c Novatein Biosciences Inc   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

ⁱ Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Mobile medicine; point of care (POC) diagnostics; public health; smartphone

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; DISPLAY DEVICES; MHEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH;

BIOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; BIOLOGICAL SIGNALS; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNOLOGIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; POINT OF CARE; POINT OF CARE DIAGNOSTIC; STATE OF THE ART;

SMARTPHONES;

EID: 84926309099     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: 15582256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2014.2378776     Document Type: Article

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