colposcope

Taking a break from a recent busy morning in the emergency department, nurse Lindee Miller rolled out the mobile teleSANE cart and colposcope device from Avel eCare.

A positive result also leads to further procedures, typically a biopsy involving a colposcope, a viewing instrument that magnifies the cervix.

A team from Duke University in North Carolina had used machine learning to detect cervical cancer automatically using a pocket colposcope, to the same level of accuracy as a human expert.

It’s a smartphone-fitted colposcope aimed at developing countries like Kenya, Rwanda and Haiti, desperate for cheap ways of detecting cervical cancer, a major killer in these places.

MobileOCT’s mobile colposcope consists of hardware that attaches to the phone, and a software app that uploads photos and accompanying data to a database for further examination.