Director of Emergency and Disaster Medicine at Brown University, Dr. Selim Soner developed A medical application that can measure intraocular anemia in just Two seconds without taking blood samples from patient.
With Suner’s AI-powered eMoglobin app, the level of Anemia in a patient It can be measured instantly using I took a square photo with a mobile phone. The application that will be a file world firstyou will save lives in Diagnosis of Hemorrhagic emergency patients, where each second Decisive.
estimated to be approx one-Third of The world’s population He suffers from anemia. In order to detect anemia that is manifested with symptoms of weakness, fatigue If you are pale, you must go to the hospital, do blood tests, and wait for The report takes about two hours.
but, with Telemedicine application developed By Dr. Eng. Turkish Living in America, anemia can now be measured literally “in the blink of an eye.” of Ain”. The application can be used by all over The world Once it receives approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) it will reduce examinations of two hours to two seconds.
Dr. Sonner co in a international conspiracy in Antalya last week and reveal the details of eMoglobin app developed with for him teaminfluential on for him story from Robert College in Istanbul for college of engineering of Brown University in United States From there he applied to medical school of The same university and now operates in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Rhode Island Hospital.
Dr. Soner explained during an interview how He became an emergency medicine specialist in The United States, where he initially went to become an engineer. After Robert College in Türkiye, I went to Brown University in United States to study engineering. First, I studied Electrical Engineering and later switched to Biomedical Engineering. I started my undergraduate degree and worked as a paramedic in Ambulances for my daily expenses, i.e met Emergency Medicine community There is oh my coincidence professor Lu asked anyone He wants to study medicine. So I raised my hand and entered the same medical school next Soner said.
Maintaining this geometry has always been the case first Dr Soner Love said: “While I was working as an assistant in Emergency medicine, I thought how I can combine my love of engineering with medicine. Anemia project I started from there. in 80% of Emergency patients, blood is certainly taken and analyzed. hemoglobin, which indicates whether patient He has anemia or not, he is one of analyzed measurements. we thought of Measurement of hemoglobin “without blood” f fast and that how this is project I started.”
First, it wasn’t a phone app. Us took inside the eye photos with a digital cameraWe evaluated that digital mathematically and data made Links with Hemoglobin data of The patients. The results they were good. cameras in phones now as well powerful These phones have tremendous potential display Megapixels and 16-bit data,” the doctor said.
“for this reason project transformed to mobile phone app. anyone who wishes to take test image snaps of their eyes with a mobile Phone and after two seconds the hemoglobin concentration is determined.
Dr. Sonner explained that they developed eMoglobin application by comparing measurements taken from patients’ blood with Data obtained from the images of Both are right and left eyes in Includes hundreds of studies of The patients with approval of Ethics Committee.
We compared the data taken from the left and right left eyes of hundreds of The patients. We have 3,500 photos in this regard. we currently a job with 500 more The patients. When we look at the data, there is a margin of error of 2 grams per deciliter, which is a very acceptable level. For example, if someone has a low hemoglobin level of 10 grams per deciliter in Their blood work gives a value between 8 and 12 grams per deciliter in Our measure. This margin of error Medically enough.”
life-saving in emergency bleeding
It is very difficult to highlight it perform blood tests in particular in Developing countriesBecause of the lack of laboratories and facilities, the doctor pointed out that measuring hemoglobin levels is particularly important for Diagnosis of nutritional anemia.
With this app, anemia levels of many people Interventions can be quickly measurable made Accordingly. The fact That the application can be used before seeking hospital treatment also very important. For example, cases of Internal bleeding risk It can be dealt with immediately with with The help of Application. The test It can then be repeated half hour, and if there is heavy bleeding, it will be detected within seconds and can be detected reduce Hospital expenses.
with a purpose use He. She in Sick, we are need For FDA approval in The United States and us need to apply with some data. We plan to do that year (2023). Once we receive the requested data, we will file an FDA application. It would be very easy to post them all over The world After approval. It will be right away available for download from the phone app stores And the anyone in The world will access Dr. Sonner explained it easily.
