CelloPhone + CellScope: diagnosis by camera phone
The employment of cellphone cameras as lo-def medical imaging devices seems to be catching on. Hot on the heels of the bloodsucking Vampire Phone, I covered at the beginning of the year, come the CelloPhone and the CellScope.
Both devices are winners of Vodafone’s $600′000 Wireless Innovation prize and pioneers in the emerging field of telemicroscopy, turning a cellphone camera into a ‘clinical-quality light microscope that can transmit images of patient samples for remote diagnosis by healthcare professionals.
Both devices are being deployed across the developing world, in field trials, that will help determine whether lightweight equipment and remote diagnosis can help alleviate the limited resources of such communites.
CelloScope and Cellophone shre the same ability to ‘clip’ onto existing phone’s cameras, but where eCellScope utilised a directly captured optical image, Cellphone seeks to analyse the ’shadows’ of cells, which can indicate the presence of cells and bacteria.
The devices could be a boon to rural and less developed communities that lack sophisticated medical imaging equipment and also the skills to interpret images locally. Indeed, both devices can utilise MMS messages to request a diagnosis; some remote diagnosis are even performed by computer and returned as a text message!
Read more at SciDev.Net’s Mobile phone diagnosis approaches field trials…
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