Smartphone diagnostics

When someone has suffered a stroke, it's imperative that they receive medical attention as soon as possible. And while current diagnostic procedures take some time, an experimental smartphone app could deliver results much quicker.

One area where the modern smartphone has come to show incredible amounts of promise is in medical diagnostics, where they could soon reshape how we detect diabetes, gauge female fertility, spot skin cancers, and much more.

We've already heard about various smartphone-linked devices that determine if the user is intoxicated. According to a new study, though, even a phone on its own can be used to measure a person's drunkenness.

A team from UC San Francisco has demonstrated the potential in using a smartphone camera to diagnose type 2 diabetes. The technique needs no additional hardware other than a smartphone camera, and is over 80 percent accurate in detecting diabetes.

A team of scientists has developed software that could make diagnoses of blood disorders much more straightforward, using a smartphone camera to assess levels of hemoglobin as a way of detecting conditions like anemia.

After an orthodontist has fitted a patient with braces or otherwise worked on straightening their teeth, it's important for them to follow that person's progress. A new setup lets them do so, without requiring the patient to visit their clinic.

Currently, in order to determine if someone has a urinary tract infection, their urine sample has to be sent off to a lab – it takes days to get results. Now, scientists have created a smartphone-enabled system that works in less than 25 minutes.

An app designed to detect early signs of several eye diseases has surpassed an 80 percent accuracy rate, equaling the sensitivity of devices used by trained ophthalmologists.

A new smartphone-based system has been designed to analyze the shape of infants' craniums.

Scientists have developed a smartphone-based system that detects even small concentrations of norovirus instantly, on the spot.

A new technology, called transdermal optical imaging, can turn your smartphone into a device that can measure your blood pressure by analyzing a short video of your face. The University of Toronto-led research has demonstrated the system is 95 percent accurate and an app is already in development.

In order to see how many viruses are present in a patient's biological fluid sample, costly devices such as fluorescence microscopes are typically used – not a good solution for developing nations. That's why scientists have developed an inexpensive smartphone-connected gadget that does the job.