Following a preliminary pilot trial on 37 newborns at University College London Hospital (UCLH) in 2020, the neoSCB app, created by clinicians and engineers from UCL, was used to test for jaundice in almost 300 newborn babies in Ghana.
According to a study co-authored by academics at UCL (University College London) and the University of Ghana, this smartphone app that detects severe jaundice in newborn babies by scanning their eyes could save lives in places without access to pricey screening tools.
The team evaluated almost 300 infants using the app for the large-scale study, which was published in Paediatrics. The program analyzes pictures taken with a smartphone camera to measure the yellowness of the white area of the eye (sclera), an indication of neonatal jaundice.
It is unreliable to assess the yellowness of the eye simply by looking, but the neoSCB app can provide an early diagnosis of neonatal jaundice that requires treatment.
It is no doubt that once perfected, this technology would prove very useful to health institutions across the country and the world over.
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