Research Article
Chemical sensors integrated with mobile phones for remote medical diagnostics: state-of-the-art and beyond
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.mobihealth.2014.257397, author={Anton Amann and Milt Statheropoulos}, title={Chemical sensors integrated with mobile phones for remote medical diagnostics: state-of-the-art and beyond}, proceedings={4th International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare - "Transforming healthcare through innovations in mobile and wireless technologies"}, publisher={IEEE}, proceedings_a={MOBIHEALTH}, year={2014}, month={12}, keywords={smartphones skin exhaled breath volatile organic conpounds (vocs) human odor sensors gases chemicals}, doi={10.4108/icst.mobihealth.2014.257397} }- Anton Amann
Milt Statheropoulos
Year: 2014
Chemical sensors integrated with mobile phones for remote medical diagnostics: state-of-the-art and beyond
MOBIHEALTH
IEEE
DOI: 10.4108/icst.mobihealth.2014.257397
Abstract
Human breath and sweat are sources of biogenic volatile organic compounds (VOCs) which can be sampled non-invasively providing medical information. Smartphones can be equipped with a variety of classical sensors (e.g. camera, audio, temperature/humidity, geomagnetic, proximity, barometer, accelerometer, GPS, gyroscope, etc.) but also with chemical sensors for gases and VOCs monitoring and then be used as personalized health monitoring devices. The goal of this paper is to highlight the latest research efforts towards the direction of transforming smartphones to revolutionary diagnostic medical tools, being able to detect and process chemical profiles related to vital signs but also with the potential to therapeutic monitoring.