Smartphone app introduced to detect liver disease in newborns
Posted: 07/31/2015 07:21 PM IST
According to a study published in the journal PLOS One, a new smartphone app called PoopMD can accurately interpret and record the colour of a newborn's poop as a possible early symptom of a rare life-threatening liver disease.
The scientists stated that parents using the app can rely on it to help detect the symptomatic pale yellow to chalky grey stools that mean urgent medical assessment is needed.
For the study of the app, the team first gathered the medical opinions of seven paediatricians who looked at 34 photographs of pale-coloured stool. Twenty-seven of the pictures were determined to be of normal stool, and seven were deemed bile deficient, showing high risk for BA. Later, one expert and three laypeople were asked to use the app on Apple and Android devices to look at and analyse the same pictures using a variety of smartphone models.
"These individuals were essentially asked to take a picture of the stool photograph and determine if the app identifies the photo as normal or pale," Mogul said.
By Lizitha
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