An automated smartphone-based diagnostic assay for point-of-care semen analysis

Science Translational Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 382, 2017, Pages

  Kanakasabapathy, Manoj Kumar ^a   Sadasivam, Magesh ^a   Singh, Anupriya ^a   Preston, Collin ^a   Thirumalaraju, Prudhvi ^a   Venkataraman, Maanasa ^a   Bormann, Charles L ^b   Draz, Mohamed Shehata ^a   Petrozza, John C ^b   Shafiee, Hadi ^a,c  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CALIBRATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED SEMEN ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; HUMAN; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; MALE INFERTILITY; MICROFLUIDICS; POINT OF CARE TESTING; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCREENING TEST; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SMARTPHONE; SPERM QUALITY; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; CRYOPRESERVATION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; MALE; POINT OF CARE SYSTEM; PROCEDURES;

CRYOPRESERVATION; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; HUMANS; MALE; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SMARTPHONE; SPERM COUNT;

EID: 85016393075     PISSN: 19466234     EISSN: 19466242     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aai7863     Document Type: Article

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