Healthcare App To Estimate Jaundice

Mobile Application

We are the leading healthcare app development company in the US, UK, and Canada. The client wanted to develop a smartphone app that estimates newborn jaundice levels for a Norway Semi-Government project. A healthcare mobile app that estimates newborn jaundice levels is a helpful tool for parents. The app helps doctors and nurses diagnose and monitor the jaundice condition in newborns quickly, easily, and with accuracy. The app is easy to use. Once you have installed it on your device, you open it and input the baby’s date of birth and weight. The app will then calculate the jaundice level and provide a warning message if the level is high. Providing this information directly to health professionals can help save lives. There are no risks associated with using the healthcare mobile app that estimates newborn jaundice levels. However, if you do not have the app installed on your device, you can still get an estimate of the baby’s jaundice level by contacting a healthcare professional. We developed a user-friendly healthcare mobile app that estimates newborn jaundice levels to ensure that anyone can use the app after seeing just a short video tutorial. According to the statistics every year 114.000 newborn children die from jaundice. Although jaundice rarely causes death or brain damage in high-income countries, the condition is still a large problem in low and middle-income countries. This is due to the high cost of the medical devices used to accurately diagnose the condition today. We are awarded the best healthcare app development company by Clutch. View our Portfolios and Case Studies to know more about the latest projects related to healthcare and fitness.

iLeaf's Process

Communication

We discuss to ensure that we have the exact idea of what is required

Collaboration

There's regular interaction with the client to ensure things are on track

Development

Begins according to the needs of our client

Result

The final output will be a perfect match to our clients requirement

Initially, we started developing the application which will let the Doctors and Nurses who use the app to take the pictures of the newborns and send them to the server to calculate the Bilirubin content. But due to different camera quality and light effects, the accuracy of the calculation lacks, which is a serious issue as far as the medical field is concerned.

So we came up with a solution to use a reference card for the calculation. The reference card is a multi-colored card that is the size of a credit card, which the user can put on the newborn’s body, and based on these references the photo will be sent to the server. As accuracy is the main concern here, we added some additional care to it.

The user is restricted from capturing the images manually
The auto-capture works only if the card and the camera are parallel.
For more accuracy, the camera auto-captures images as a set of 3 with and without camera flash.

All the six images along with some information about the newborn are sent to the server to calculate the Bilirubin value. The server will refer to the images based on the color codes on the card and the newborn’s body color, then estimate the value of Bilirubin with the medical calculation and send back the result to the app.

RISK MANAGEMENT

We used Flutter as the development platform to develop this application. As Flutter was a new development platform when we started the project, there were no efficient libraries to manage the image processing, auto capturing, and card detection. So we needed to take an OpenCV_flutter camera plugin and do our own modifications to make the app manage the card recognition, auto capture, and image processing. This OpenCV library is the major risk we had while at the stage of development. We managed to solve the glitches in the library and make the app work.

The next risk we faced is the calculation process on the backend system. Initially, the system took more than 5 minutes to process the image and send the results back on to the app. So we managed to use the same OpenCV library to process the image on the server-side as well. As we were using the same library to capture and process the images, the calculation speed increased and the calculation time reduced to less than 60 seconds.

TECHNOLOGY STACK

Flutter, OpenCV, Python,
Xcode and Android Studio
MongoDB, Zeplin,
Atlassian Confluence, Gitlab.

The Result

When this app is considered, the purpose and usage of the app are for those who work in the medical field. So our approach is to make a simple and easily workable UI for all kinds of users. So we created a UI with a simple camera and an instruction button. The instruction is a video tutorial that the user can watch any number of times if they want to refer to how the app works and how they need to make it work. When it comes to the camera option, for greater UI experience, auto-capture and the auto flash option are provided for capturing the images which will let the app sends the best images to the server with great quality.

The project received grants from and funding from European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement no: 854926