Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Rice Researchers Get $10M To Turn Your Phone Into A Health Diagnostics Device

Is using your smartphone to diagnose your health the next big medical breakthrough? A Rice University team has just received $10M from the National Science Foundation, to develop wearable technology and smartphones to non-invasively, diagnose and monitor a long list of health conditions which normally would require an invasive or cumbersome biopsy or blood test, according to the school. According to Rice University, a team--led by Professor Ashutosh Sabharwal--has been working on miniturized, light-based microscopes which can examine "soft tissue", in a technique called "computational scatterography". Accoridng to those researchers, using mathematical algorithms, camera design, and imaging sensors those techniques might be able to perform such tests as white blood cell count (WBC) tests, and many others.