| Abstract: | Today, medical diagnosis is still a laborious and highly labour intensive task. Blood and other body fluids or tissue samples are sent to a laboratory for an analysis, which can take hours, days or weeks, depending on the method used. Existing techniques are often costly with long waiting times; samples can deteriorate and if they are small they can often yield inaccurate results. Data obtained from a wide variety of methods can be difficult to integrate and sample collection is hard to standardise. |
