System and Method for Crowdsourcing Biological Specimen Identification

A system and method for crowdsourcing medical diagnosis that includes a caregiver taking a biological specimen from a patient, making a microscope slide with the specimen, photographing the image and transmitting it, including personal and demographic information related to the patient, to a remote...

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Hauptverfasser: MORRIS CARA C, CARVALKO JOSEPH R
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Zusammenfassung:A system and method for crowdsourcing medical diagnosis that includes a caregiver taking a biological specimen from a patient, making a microscope slide with the specimen, photographing the image and transmitting it, including personal and demographic information related to the patient, to a remote computer, where the data is stored in a database for crowdsourced analysis, collecting the opinions of the individuals forming the crowdsource, weighting the opinions based upon qualifications of the individuals, and developing a pooled diagnosis based a parameter, such as frequency of a diagnosis occurring in the crowd of individuals, and transmitting the diagnosis to the caregiver, for prescribing medication, a therapy or further medical tests.