Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-1-2015
Abstract
Point-of-care (POC) diagnostics is playing an increasingly important role in public health, environmental monitoring, and food safety analysis. Smartphones, alone or in conjunction with add-on devices, have shown great capability of data collection, analysis, display, and transmission, making them popular in POC diagnostics. In this article, the state-of-the-art advances in smartphone-based POC diagnostic technologies and their applications in the past few years are outlined, ranging from in vivo tests that use smartphone's built-in/external sensors to detect biological signals to in vitro tests that involves complicated biochemical reactions. Novel techniques are illustrated by a number of attractive examples, followed by a brief discussion of the smartphone's role in telemedicine. The challenges and perspectives of smartphone-based POC diagnostics are also provided.
Keywords
mobile medicine, point-of-care (poc) diagnostics, public health, smartphone, mobile phone, microfluidic devices, cell-phone, telemedicine, health, platform, technologies, cellphone, medicine, system
Divisions
fac_eng
Publication Title
Proceedings of the IEEE
Volume
103
Issue
2
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Additional Information
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