The Portable Eye Examination Kit: Mobile phones can screen for eye disease in low-resource settings

Mario Ettore Giardini

doi:10.1109/MPUL.2015.2476563

The Portable Eye Examination Kit: Mobile phones can screen for eye disease in low-resource settings

Mario Ettore Giardini

Biomedical Engineering

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Abstract

In 2010, the World Health Organization estimated that 285 million people exhibit some form of vision impairment. Of these, almost 40 million people are functionally blind [1]. Yet, 80% of blindness could either be treated or avoided at the point of onset.

Original language	English
Article number	7328846
Pages (from-to)	15-17
Number of pages	3
Journal	IEEE Pulse
Volume	6
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MPUL.2015.2476563
Publication status	Published - 13 Nov 2015

Keywords

Biomedical measurements
Blindness
Diseases
Mobile handsets
Retina
Statistics
Visual systems

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Biomedical Engineering

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