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CTOnews.com6, March 24 (Xinhua)-- researchers at the University of Washington have developed software called FeverPhone, which can use the built-in temperature sensor (temperature sensor) in the phone to turn the phone into a "thermometer" to detect signs of fever.

The researchers say that the temperature resistance used in a mobile phone is roughly the same as that of a clinical thermometer, or even more sensitive, so using a mobile phone as a thermometer is actually no different from a traditional thermometer.

▲ image source Joseph Breda researchers use three mobile phones to test. They first use the thermistors in the phone to measure the standard temperature of the air, and then use the heat transfer principle to read the temperature rise data displayed by the resistance after the phone screen touches the human skin, thus summing up the body temperature information.

▲ image source Joseph Breda researchers recruited 37 participants and finally found that the average error of body temperature estimated by FeverPhone software was only about 0.41 °F (0.23 °C), which met the error requirements of clinical medicine for body temperature data, thus proving that the software has practical value.

Joseph Breda, lead author of the study, said that it has been proved that smartphone temperature resistors are accurate in measuring human body temperature, but the size of the phone is usually large, so the measurement is not convenient, and they are currently working to achieve the same results on smartwatches, where CTOnews.com 's friends can find information about the paper.

▲ source Joseph Breda the App is still in the testing stage, and considering that such medical software usually requires very stringent approvals before it can be put on the app store, it may not be available to the public in the future.

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