Mobile Medical App for Remote Screening of Appendicitis

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Weiss, Alexander
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Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
The joint Georgia Tech and Emory department was established in 1997
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Abstract
This study aimed to identify the possibility of using the sensors found in mobile devices as tools for remotely diagnosing or assessing the risk of appendicitis. The study was performed by created a mobile application on an Android device and testing the repeatability of the palpations a physician would perform on a patient across patient groups and across mobile environments.
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2015-08-18
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Undergraduate Thesis
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