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New technology to detect anemia by taking a picture with a smartphone

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This week, Selim Suner and colleagues of Brown University and Rhode Island Hospital in the United States published a new study in the journal PLOS ONE, claiming that photos of people’s inner eyelids taken with a smartphone’s standard camera can be used to screen for anemia

Anemia is a disease with low hemoglobin concentration.

Previous studies have shown that the inside of the lower eyelid-the eyelid conjunctiva-appears pale in patients with anemia

When analyzing this new set of photos, the model predicts anemia with an accuracy of 72.

The author added: “The image of the blood vessel surface of the lower eyelid captured by a smartphone camera can be used to estimate hemoglobin concentration and predict anemia

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Prediction of anemia and estimation of hemoglobin concentration using a smartphone camera

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