SEMIC Eye Scan App detects SARS-CoV-2 and more in just 3 minutes with a hit rate of 95%
A Munich-based company hopes to help usher in a new era of coronavirus testing with an eye scan that, it says, takes just three minutes to identify carriers of the disease and has a hit rate of 95%. eye scan app
Semic RF has developed its scanning app with colleagues in the United States and, pending regulatory approval, hopes to start rolling it out there by the end of next month, says its managing director, Wolfgang Gruber. eye scan app
Based on their CRADLE project “Digital Photography of Eyes” and the many individual photos that were taken, the conventional leukocoria (white pupillary reflex) examinations helped Semic to be successful. In the first place, a patient photographs his eyes more often than a physician, who usually only performs a red reflex test.
It uses a photo of the eye taken with a smartphone, and identifies the virus by means of a symptomatic inflammation called “pink eye”.
“We managed to isolate COVID-19 from over two million different shades of pink,” Gruber told Reuters.
He says the app, already tested on over 70,000 individuals, can process up to a million scans per second and the option to expand that capacity further – potentially allowing crowds back into mass-attendance events like concerts and football matches.
“You take your app, take a picture of both eyes, send it for evaluation, and then you can have the evaluated result stored as a QR code on the tested person’s smartphone,”
Gruber added.
On April 8th, 2020, with additional use of the YUV color model technology and integration of the gamma compression method, the company made further progress after evaluating 70,000 patient data. Semic can now successfully isolate the following types of diseases with a hit rate of over 95%:
SARS-CoV-2
Bile disorders
Diabetes
Floater
Hepatitis
Influenza
Leaky gut
Liver disease
Lung disease
Stomach tumors
Spondylitis
Typhus
Uterine fibroids
SEMIC EyeScan also enables the detection of:
Alcohol
Drugs
Nicotine
The sequence of the quick tests:
Semic use a smartphone to scan a patient’s both eyes for about 10 seconds. Company’s proprietary AI will then show you the blood pressure, pulse and body temperature in addition to the type of disease within just 3-5 minutes.
Required smartphone camera sensitivity = 2 Mpx min. eye scan app
