Towards a point-of-care diagnostic system: automated analysis of immunoassay test data on a cell phone

Authors:
Nicola Lee Dell;Sugandhan Venkatachalam;Dean Stevens;Paul Yager;Gaetano Borriello
Affiliations:
University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA;University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA;University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA;University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA;University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Venue:
NSDR '11 Proceedings of the 5th ACM workshop on Networked systems for developing regions
Year:
2011

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Abstract

Many of the diagnostic tests administered in well-funded clinical laboratories are inappropriate for point-of-care testing in low-resource environments. As a result, inexpensive, portable immunoassay tests have been developed to facilitate the rapid diagnosis of many diseases common to developing countries. However, manually analyzing the test results at the point of care may be complex and error-prone for untrained users reading test results by eye, and providing methods for automatically processing these tests could significantly increase their utility. In this paper, we present a mobile application that automatically quantifies immunoassay test data on a smart phone. The speed and accuracy demonstrated by the application suggest that cell-phone based analysis could aid disease diagnosis at the point of care.