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Would love to hear about how this is different from Theranos.
by bcatanzaro 10y ago
Would love to hear about how this is different from Theranos.
- ttandon 10y agoDefinitely! Not all of what Theranos did is public, so I can only share from what I know, but our approach is highly focused on trained computer vision algorithms - whereas a lot of previous approaches have relied on coulter counting (mentioned in the post). You can check out how we performed in the data section http://Athelas.com/data http://Athelas.com/data
- dude01 10y agoThe article says it uses computer vision to detect parasitical cells like Malaria or Trypanosoma. No black magic, they explain their techniques in detail. I think the difference between them and Theranos is that Athelas is detecting things in extremity blood which is valid to test for, whereas Theranos was looking for things that needed rich heart blood from veins.