BiliScreen uses a smartphone's built-in camera and flash to collect pictures of a person's eye as they snap a selfie. The team developed a computer vision system to automatically and effectively isolate the white parts of the eye, which is a valuable tool for medical diagnostics. The app then calculates the color information from the sclera -- based on the wavelengths of light that are being reflected and absorbed -- and correlates it with bilirubin levels using machine learning algorithms.
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