A new paper in npj Digital Medicine just describes how a smartphone-based microscope using deep learning could screen for sickle cell disease. I find it fascinating when research groups can combine these three things: 1) a disease that affects a lot of patients 2) a device that is already in our hands, our smartphone 3) artificial intelligence making use of the data we can capture with it Here is an excerpt: "We blindly tested this mobile sickle cell detection method using blood smears from 96 unique patients (including 32 SCD patients) that were imaged by our smartphone microscope, and achieved ~98% accuracy, with an area-under-the-curve of 0.998. With its high accuracy, this mobile and cost-effective method has the potential to be used as a screening tool for SCD and other blood cell disorders in resource-limited settings." https://lnkd.in/dd8WBSf #themedicalfuturist #digitalhealth #future #healthcare #medicine #technology #AI #artificialintelligence #deeplearning #machinelearning #sicklecelldisease …see more