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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2024

NAILS: Normalized Artificial Intelligence Labeling Sensor for Self-Care Health.

Livio Tenze, Enrique Canessa

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Liquid Metal-Enabled Soft Bioelectronics for Human Health Monitoring.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Livio TenzeThe Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), 34151 Trieste, Italy.
Enrique CanessaThe Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), 34151 Trieste, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-9581-9419

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Visual examination of nails can reflect human health status. Diseases such as nutritive imbalances and skin diseases can be identified by looking at the colors around the plate part of the nails. We present the AI-based NAILS method to detect fingernails through segmentation and labeling. The NAILS leverages a pre-trained Convolutional Neural Network model to segment and label fingernail regions from fingernail images, normalizing RGB values to monitor tiny color changes via a GUI and the use of an HD webcam in real time. The use of normalized RGB values combined with AI-based segmentation for real-time health monitoring is novel and innovative. The NAILS algorithm could be used to self-extract and archive primary signs of diseases in humans, especially in rural areas or when other testing may be not available.

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AlgorithmsArtificial IntelligenceNailsNeural Networks, ComputerHumansImage Processing, Computer-AssistedSelf Careearly disease detectionfingernail color analysismachine learning algorithmregion-based image segmentation

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PMID39771732
PMCPMC11679173

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