Trial reportThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2013
Mobile phone microscopy for the diagnosis of soil-transmitted helminth infections: a proof-of-concept study.
Trial report in The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 46 papers.
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- NTDscope: A multi-contrast portable microscope for disease diagnosis.PLOS global public health · 2026Article
- Integrating Digital Health Innovations to Achieve Universal Health Coverage: Promoting Health Outcomes and Quality Through Global Public Health Equity.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Rapid and Comprehensive Screening for Urogenital and Gastrointestinal Schistosomiasis with Handheld Digital Microscopy Combined with Circulating Cathodic Antigen Testing.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2024Article
- Status and future prospects for mobile phone-enabled diagnostics in Tanzania.PLOS digital health · 2024Article
- A review on innovative optical devices for the diagnosis of human soil-transmitted helminthiasis and schistosomiasis: from research and development to commercialization.Parasitology · 2023Review
- Affordable artificial intelligence-based digital pathology for neglected tropical diseases: A proof-of-concept for the detection of soil-transmitted helminths and Schistosoma mansoni eggs in Kato-Katz stool thick smears.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2022Article
- Schistoscope: An Automated Microscope with Artificial Intelligence for Detection ofMicromachines · 2022Article
- Human-Device Interaction in the Life Science Laboratory.Advances in biochemical engineering/biotechnology · 2022Article
- Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Diagnostic Accuracy of Mobile-Linked Point-of-Care Diagnostics in Sub-Saharan Africa.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- A smartphone microscopic method for simultaneous detection of (oo)cysts of Cryptosporidium and Giardia.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2020Article
- Visualization of blood cell contrast in nailfold capillaries with high-speed reverse lens mobile phone microscopy.Biomedical optics express · 2020Article
- Kankanet: An artificial neural network-based object detection smartphone application and mobile microscope as a point-of-care diagnostic aid for soil-transmitted helminthiases.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2019Article
- Rapid assessment of faecal egg count and faecal egg count reduction through composite sampling in cattle.Parasites & vectors · 2019Article
- Advances in automated tongue diagnosis techniques.Integrative medicine research · 2019Review
- Inorganic Complexes and Metal-Based Nanomaterials for Infectious Disease Diagnostics.Chemical reviews · 2019Review
- Nuclear morphometrics and chromatin condensation patterns as disease biomarkers using a mobile microscope.PloS one · 2019Article
- Smartphone-based clinical diagnostics: towards democratization of evidence-based health care.Journal of internal medicine · 2019Review
- A modular, open-source, slide-scanning microscope for diagnostic applications in resource-constrained settings.PloS one · 2018Article
- "Smart Diagnosis" of Parasitic Diseases by Use of Smartphones.Journal of clinical microbiology · 2018Review
- Imaging systems and algorithms to analyze biological samples in real-time using mobile phone microscopy.PloS one · 2018Article
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Abstract
We created a mobile phone microscope and assessed its accuracy for the diagnosis of soil-transmitted helminths compared with conventional microscopy. Mobile phone microscopy has a sensitivity of 69.4% for detecting any helminth egg and sensitivities of 81.0%, 54.4%, and 14.3% for the diagnosis of Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura and hookworm respectively.
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