Smartphone app for non-invasive detection of anemia using only patient-sourced photos

Nature Communications

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Mannino, Robert G ^a,b,c   Myers, David R ^a,b,c   Tyburski, Erika A ^a,b,c   Caruso, Christina ^b   Boudreaux, Jeanne ^b   Leong, Traci ^d   Clifford, G D ^a,b   Lam, Wilbur A ^a,b,c  

^a Emory University   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ANEMIA; BLOOD; CALIBRATION; DETECTION METHOD; HEMOGLOBIN; LABORATORY METHOD; MOBILE PHONE;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ANAPLASTIC LARGE CELL LYMPHOMA; ANEMIA; APLASTIC ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLACKFAN DIAMOND ANEMIA; BURKITT LYMPHOMA; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFUSE LARGE B CELL LYMPHOMA; EWING SARCOMA; FEMALE; FULMINATING PURPURA; GERM CELL TUMOR; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEMOGLOBIN SC DISEASE; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HEMOPHILIA; HEPATOBLASTOMA; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN DEFICIENCY; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; LAW; LUNG EMBOLISM; LYMPHOBLASTOMA; MACROCYTIC ANEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINUM TUMOR; MEDICAL PHOTOGRAPHY; MICROCYTIC ANEMIA; NEPHROBLASTOMA; NEUROBLASTOMA; NEUTROPENIA; NONINVASIVE VENTILATION; OSTEOSARCOMA; PANCYTOPENIA; PAROXYSMAL NOCTURNAL HEMOGLOBINURIA; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; QUALITY CONTROL; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SACROCOCCYX TUMOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SICKLE CELL BETA THALASSEMIA; SPHEROCYTOSIS; SPINDLE CELL SARCOMA; SYNOVIAL SARCOMA; TESTIS TUMOR; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VON WILLEBRAND DISEASE;

EID: 85057606189     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-07262-2     Document Type: Article

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