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

TY - JOUR

T1 - The Portable Eye Examination Kit

T2 - Mobile phones can screen for eye disease in low-resource settings

AU - Giardini, Mario Ettore

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2015 IEEE.

PY - 2015/11/13

Y1 - 2015/11/13

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

KW - Biomedical measurements

KW - Blindness

KW - Diseases

KW - Mobile handsets

KW - Retina

KW - Statistics

KW - Visual systems

UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84959518213

U2 - 10.1109/MPUL.2015.2476563

DO - 10.1109/MPUL.2015.2476563

M3 - Article

C2 - 26583885

AN - SCOPUS:84959518213

SN - 2154-2287

VL - 6

SP - 15

EP - 17

JO - IEEE Pulse

JF - IEEE Pulse

IS - 6

M1 - 7328846

ER -