Microscopy based on the mobile phone can be used to diagnose skin cancer accurately in environments, where a traditional microscope is not available, according to a new study.
Researchers at the University of Texas Center for Health Sciences at Houston (UTHealth), said microscopes smartphones could improve detection of skin cancer in developing countries.
A doctor or technician performs a Smartphone microscope through a skin sample that will be placed on a slide and wait for the sample into focus.
Then the doctor will read the sample, if he or she is a pathologist, or will take a photo and email messages to a pathologist for interpretation.
The researchers examined 1,021 slides of the samples, which had a total of 136 basal cell carcinomas, 94 squamous cell carcinomas and 15 melanomas.
