New smartphone app identifying jaundice from babies’ eyes ‘could save lives’

A smartphone app that can identify severe jaundice in newborn babies through scanning their eyes could help save lives in poorer areas of the world, a new study suggests (PA)

A smartphone app that can identify severe jaundice in newborn babies by scanning their eyes could help save lives in poorer parts of the world, a new study suggests.

In the study — co-authored by researchers at University College London (UCL) and the University of Ghana — an app called neoSCB was used to scan the eyes of more than 300 newborns in Ghana, following an initial pilot study on 37 newborns in 2020.