4 Topic Commentaries

A mobile non-invasive tongue imaging device with automated evaluation for use in community and domestic environments

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  Manu Prakash, PhD

  Assistant Professor of Bioengineering

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  Stanford University School of Engineering

  The feedback we got from surgeons who see patients every day, and from cancer screening clinics in rural parts of South India, shaped the project. I am always inspired by the energy of rural health workers in the field and I am thankful for the current support so we can continue this transition from technology development to field deployment.

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  Ruikang K. Wang, PhD

  Professor of Bioengineering and of Ophthalmology

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  University of Washington

  Bacteria on skin and in our mouths can have wide impacts on our health — from causing tooth to decay to slowing down wound healing. Since smartphones are so widely used, we wanted to develop a cost-effective, easy tool that people could use to learn about bacteria on skin and in the oral cavity.

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  William V. Giannobile, DDS, DMSc

  Dean and A. Lee Loomis, Jr. Professor of Oral Medicine, Infection and Immunity

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  Harvard School of Dental Medicine

  As dentists, we are already collecting biomedical imaging and by integrating patient clinical diagnostic information and applying advanced analytics, we can get a really robust picture of the oral health of a patient population.

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  Petra Wilder-Smith, DDS, PhD

  Director of Dentistry, Beckman Laser Institute & Medical Clinic; Professor of Surgery

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  University of California, Irvine

  My goal is to use our highly sophisticated imaging tools to map the molecular risk so that we can tell the surgeon, first when they plan the surgery, and then intraoperatively, how close they can keep the excision to the tumor margins and still keep a minimal risk of recurrence in the patient.

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