Application Developers can Enable Doctors To Detect Tumors Via Smart Phones

Many people say that the cell phones causes cancer and some says it doesn't but one thing which the Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital proved is that they can be used to detect tumors. At Boston have developed a system can detect tumors by analyzing a few thousands cells and spare patients from the larger biopsies currently used. It works by using magnetic nanoparticles to measure protein levels, looking for specific markers that indicate the presence of cancer. Doctors can see the information from the chip on their phone's screen.

To test this device the Researchers have conducted two tests in both of them they get quite good results even in the second test the accuracy is about 100%. The smart-phone-equipped device is also much faster than current methods, providing results in under an hour which is way faster than the usual three day wait.

According to the researchers this device isn't quite ready for clinical use. One problem is that the relevant protein markers aren't always present in cancer cells, which could lead to misdiagnoses. The proteins are also short-lived, meaning that cells should be analyzed soon after they are extracted.

Google Goggles for online image and facial recognition

Google introduced Google Goggles which is an image recognition search for mobile phones which allows the users to capture anything like a building, landmark or monument from their mobile phone camera and then they can get info about that photo by searching using GOOGLE GOGGLES.  A user does not need to type or speak to start the search. It's as easy as opening the app, taking a photo and then waiting for the search results. 

 

 When you capture a photo it also includes background like streets, signboards, people etc. and when you search for that image Google may break the photo into all those different background pieces and then search for each piece including facial recognition searches. 

 After the search has matched it will search the applications like social networking applications, calendar applications, in order to create identities list included in the photo. It also mentions that if the photo is tagged that photo can be used for the future identification. In order to ensure privacy Google send a request after a person has identified weather the image can be search result for other searches within the person’s social network.

Governments and the law enforcement Agencies are already identifying people based upon real names and photos posted in social media. This service by Google has both the positive and the negative aspect, at one side you can identify criminals and terrorists using this technique with the surveillance cameras in case of any accident but on the other hand you have to compromise privacy a bit. 

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