Hi Folks
from
http://bostinnovation.com/2011/07/08/hbs-student-creates-smartphone-app-to-detect-malaria/
via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2743258
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Enter Cy Khormaee <http://cykho.com/>, a Harvard Business School student,
and his team at Lifelens <http://thelifelensproject.com/blog/>. According to
their website, ?Lifelens introduces an innovative point-of-care smartphone
application to address child mortality rates caused by the lack of detection
and availability of treatment for malaria.?
The Lifelens system is made up of a hardware element and a software one. The
specific hardware in the system is a microscopy lens that is attached to the
back<http://bostinnovation.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/microscopy_windows_7-300x287.png>of
Windows 7 mobile device. The software application, which is developed
in
Silverlight <http://www.silverlight.net/>, can visualize samples placed on
the lens as if it were a micrscope.
Using the system is relatively simple. A single drop of blood from the
patient is required then smeared on the microscopy lens. Next, the
application visualizes the blood sample at a higher maginification (like a
micrscope). The application?s user simply has to know the difference between
a healthy blood sample and one infected with malaria at high magnification,
which is quite easy when looking at the images below, although the software
is capable of analyzing the sample computationally as well.
<http://bostinnovation.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/heathly_blood_sample.png>
Healthy Blood Sample
<http://bostinnovation.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/malaria_blood_sample1.png>
Malaria-infected Blood Sample
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Happy Friday
cheers
ashish
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