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In this article, see your health through a cell phone selfie with an app.

The Anura application, which was developed by the company NuraLogix, can show the user's health status through their selfie.

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It scans the user's selfie, using artificial intelligence to find out if the user is healthy.

The app can tell if the user is at risk of developing diabetes and what their blood pressure is like in a 30-second scan.

Check out the app’s features and advantages:

  • It can check the user's health condition through their selfie;
  • It can be used on any device as long as it has a front camera;
  • It uses artificial intelligence technology, which is trained with data from more than 40 thousand people who have various health conditions;
  • The report generated by the application shows the user's health assessments, showing the risks of chronic conditions;
  • The app cannot be used to diagnose diseases, serving as an alert for the user to seek a doctor;
  • Anura, which is completely free, can be downloaded on Android and iOS systems.

The application was released at MWC 2023, where NuraLogix declared to BRG that Anura should not be used for diagnoses, but to raise awareness and guide the user to seek medical help.

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Anura can be used on any device that has a front camera, a selfie camera, and the environment has enough light.

Therefore, the user must leave their face positioned within the circle shown on the screen, waiting 30 minutes for the scan to complete.

It uses a technology developed by NuraLogix, NuraLogix Transdermal Optical Imaging (TOI), which is like a new form of remote photoplethysmography (rPPG).

Simply put, the app can reflect light in some key areas of the user's face to collect information through their blood flow.

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Then, the collected data is sent to the cloud, and artificial intelligence scans it, bringing the results.

The data collected from the user will not remain stored on NuraLogix company servers.

They are deleted shortly after the report with the result is generated.

But, if the user wants, they can access the scan history through the app.

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The artificial intelligence that the application uses was trained using data from more than 40 thousand people who have various health conditions of various origins.

This technology has already been present in 10 revised research publications carried out by peer professionals, with three still in progress.

The company has 13 patents in the United States.

The app analyzes and shows the user the risks they have of developing or having chronic health conditions, such as mental health, cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes and hypertension.

It can predict whether the app user's HbA1c is greater than 5.7% and whether their fasting blood glucose is greater than 5.5mmol/L.

As for blood pressure measurements, the app has an accuracy that corresponds to a standard deviation of error of less than 8mmHg.

How to use the application?

We emphasize again that, although its technology is interesting, the app should not be used for diagnosis, but for testing the user's health through their selfie.

The company NuraLogix is currently working to obtain certain approvals that allow it to sell its application to be used as a medical device and implemented in other products.

It is still working together with other companies that are interested in bringing the service to their employees.

This application should be used in combination with more smart devices that can monitor health.

Or it can be used as a way to more easily convince the user to go to the doctor more quickly than they otherwise would.