Smartphone app to help assess anemia by taking a picture of a person’s eyelid

Thursday, May 21, 2020 - 15:10 in Health & Medicine

A doctor can quickly get an idea of whether someone is anemic by pulling down the person’s eyelid and judging its redness, a color indicating the number of red blood cells. But even a doctor’s eye isn’t precise enough to give a diagnosis without getting a blood sample from the patient. Purdue University engineers have […]

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