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April 21, 2021The Lancet Digital HealthOpen Access

Improving community health-care screenings with smartphone-based AI technologies

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Why the study?

Many patients remain undiagnosed due to barriers in screening underserved populations with expensive or invasive diagnostic platforms, prompting evaluation of smartphone-based AI technologies for community screening.

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SMSreekar MantenaLCLeo Anthony CeliSKSalmaan Keshavjee

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Overview

May support expanded screening in under-resourced settings; leaves open bias mitigation and external validation before adoption.

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Intervention
Smartphone-based artificial intelligence (AI) technologies

Smartphone-based AI screening by frontline health workers could increase early disease detection in under-resourced communities, provided algorithmic bias and generalizability challenges are addressed.

Limitations

  • Algorithms trained on datasets collected in high-income countries might not be generalisable
  • Building models using non-representative data can introduce algorithmic bias
  • Low levels of adoption and integration into clinical practice

Cite This Study

Mantena et al. (2021) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a0485a17f46ef82ba7e7aa8https://doi.org/10.1016/s2589-7500(21)00054-6
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