HealthPulse AI Leverages MediaPipe to Increase Health Equity- Google Developers Blog

This post details how HealthPulse AI, a digital health solution by Audere, leverages MediaPipe to create an AI-powered Rapid Diagnostic Test (RDT) reader. It highlights the use of MediaPipe's multi-platform support and efficient inference engine to run Computer Vision (CV) and Machine Learning (ML) models locally on low-end smartphones in decentralized care settings. The post describes the HealthPulse AI pipeline, which includes image quality assurance (IQA) to detect issues like blurriness and underexposure, RDT type detection, and classification of test results (positive, negative, invalid). It emphasizes how MediaPipe's graph definitions and calculators facilitate the development and iteration of this pipeline, enabling real-time feedback to users to retake photos when necessary. The contribution is the practical application of MediaPipe for medical diagnostics in resource-constrained environments, addressing critical global health challenges.