{"id":147792,"date":"2022-10-08T15:22:40","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T20:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/a-smartphones-camera-and-flash-could-help-people-measure-blood-oxygen-levels-at-home"},"modified":"2022-10-08T15:22:40","modified_gmt":"2022-10-08T20:22:40","slug":"a-smartphones-camera-and-flash-could-help-people-measure-blood-oxygen-levels-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/a-smartphones-camera-and-flash-could-help-people-measure-blood-oxygen-levels-at-home","title":{"rendered":"A smartphone\u2019s camera and flash could help people measure blood oxygen levels at home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-smartphones-camera-and-flash-could-help-people-measure-blood-oxygen-levels-at-home.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This technique involves having participants place their finger over the camera and flash of a smartphone, which uses a deep-learning algorithm to decipher the blood oxygen levels from the blood flow patterns in the resulting video.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Conditions like asthma or COVID-19 make it harder for bodies to absorb oxygen from the lungs. This leads to oxygen saturation percentages dropping to 90% or below, indicating that medical attention is needed.<\/p>\n<p>In a clinic, doctors monitor oxygen saturation using pulse oximeters \u2014 those clips you put over your fingertip or ear. But monitoring oxygen saturation at home multiple times a day could <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.uw.edu\/news\/covid-19-mortality-linked-signs-easily-measured-home\" target=\"_blank\">help patients keep an eye on COVID symptoms<\/a>, for example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This technique involves having participants place their finger over the camera and flash of a smartphone, which uses a deep-learning algorithm to decipher the blood oxygen levels from the blood flow patterns in the resulting video. Conditions like asthma or COVID-19 make it harder for bodies to absorb oxygen from the lungs. This leads to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,41,1512,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-information-science","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}