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Using smartphone images of the eye and eyelid, we compared two techniques (white balancing and ambient subtraction) to control for variation in ambient lighting, and then extracted \u2018redness\u2019 features from images, which we used as features to predict anaemia via statistical modelling. <jats:italic>Main results.<\/jats:italic> We found that we were not able to predict anaemia with enough accuracy to be clinically useful, at 89.6% sensitivity and 26.1% specificity. We consider the hypothesis that this may be due to pigmentation on the sclera and palpebral conjunctiva. Visual judgement showed that pigmentation on the sclera, which may affect the measured colour, is more prevalent in pregnant women in India than in preschool aged children in Ghana (a population previously studied in this context). When participants with subjectively judged visible scleral pigmentation are removed, ability to screen for anaemia using the smartphone images slightly improves (93.1% sensitivity, 28.6% specificity). <jats:italic>Significance.<\/jats:italic> These findings provide evidence to reinforce that applying smartphone imaging techniques to understudied populations in the real world requires caution\u2014a promising result in one group may not necessarily transfer to another demographic.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1088\/1361-6579\/adab4d","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,1,16]],"date-time":"2025-01-16T22:59:55Z","timestamp":1737068395000},"page":"01NT01","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1088\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["Diagnosing anaemia via smartphone colorimetry of the eye in a population of pregnant women"],"prefix":"10.1088","volume":"46","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9762-5407","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Thomas Alan","family":"Wemyss","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Anubhuti","family":"Rana","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2971-6865","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Sara L","family":"Hillman","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Miranda","family":"Nixon-Hill","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Kapil","family":"Yadav","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0280-5833","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Vatsla","family":"Dadhwal","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5680-2625","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Terence S","family":"Leung","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"266","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,1,29]]},"reference":[{"key":"pmeaadab4dbib1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1155\/2012\/485452","article-title":"Severe anaemia during late pregnancy","volume":"2012","author":"Akhtar","year":"2012","journal-title":"Case Rep. 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