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Created on August 31, 2021

Picterus

An app to detect and estimate jaundice in newborns. Courtesy of WHO Compendium 2021

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Product Description

Picterus is a smartphone app that estimates jaundice in newborns using biomedical optics and photonics to detect bilirubin. The app is currently a prototype.

This product was selected for inclusion in WHO’s 2021 Compendium of Innovative Health Technologies for Low‐Resource Settings.

Target SDGs

SDG 3: Good Health and Well-Being

Target Users (Target Impact Group)

Distributors / Implementing Organizations

None, as of 2020

Intellectural Property Type

Patent

Product Schematics

Lifecycle

N/A

Manufacturer Specified Performance Parameters

User friendly, low cost

Academic Research and References

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Aune A, Vartdal G, Bergseng H, Randeberg LL, Darj E. Bilirubin estimates from smartphone images of newborn infants’ skin correlated highly to serum bilirubin levels. Acta Paediatr. 2020 Dec;109(12):2532-2538. doi: 10.1111/apa.15287. Epub 2020 Apr 19. PMID: 32267569.

Amani M., Falk H., Jensen O.D., Vartdal G., Aune A., Lindseth F. (2019) Color Calibration on Human Skin Images. In: Tzovaras D., Giakoumis D., Vincze M., Argyros A. (eds) Computer Vision Systems. ICVS 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11754. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34995-0_20

Compliance with regulations

ISO 13485 certified

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